Posey
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 15 babies a year in England and Wales.
Posey by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Posey. In the US, 31 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 41 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Posey
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Posey. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Posysmall flower bouquet22 in England and Wales (2025)
- Poppythe poppy flower; remembrance1,789 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pollystar; a diminutive of Polly from Mary242 in England and Wales (2025)
- Posiea diminutive form of Posy, meaning flower or bouquet62 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pessyform of pessie, diminutive of pearl40 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Posey
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