Posey
Posey was given to 45 girls in 2025, #3,440 among girls’ names; 995 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Posey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Posey?
#3,440 among girls’ names, 2025
Posey rose from #3,747 in 2015 to #3,440 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 23.0 to 28.0 per million.
54 babies in 2022, the peak
Posey peaked in 2022, when 54 girls were given it, #3,066 among girls’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #3,440 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,323 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,371 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,066 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,202 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 48 | #3,267 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,515 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,431 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,460 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,066 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #3,747 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,627 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,275 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,380 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,927 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,027 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,841 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,940 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,139 | |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,411 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,700 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #3,012 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,250 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 5 | #4,084 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,298 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 12 | #2,101 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,939 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 14 | #1,976 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 10 | #2,411 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 7 | #3,100 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 9 | #2,629 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 8 | #2,891 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 8 | #2,902 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,504 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #4,157 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 11 | #2,437 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 10 | #2,743 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 7 | #3,470 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 11 | #2,613 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 11 | #2,660 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 7 | #3,630 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,656 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 16 | #2,115 | |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,549 | 12 | #2,572 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,899 | 11 | #2,762 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 17 | #2,035 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 17 | #2,032 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 17 | #1,954 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 17 | #1,977 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,689 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 17 | #1,829 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 12 | #2,272 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 12 | #1,947 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 9 | #1,850 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 7 | #1,396 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 5 | #1,167 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 7 | #960 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 6 | #1,047 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 6 | #953 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 5 | #1,145 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Posey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 995 Americans recorded as Posey, 60% are girls and 40% boys. In 2025 it went to 45 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Posey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Posey, and how old are they?
An estimated 629 Americans named Posey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 462 people named Posey (356 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 376 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,694 babies since 1880, Posey is the most given (59% of them). In 2025 it was given to 45 of their 116 babies (39%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Posey and names like it
- Compare Posey and PosieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Posey alive today were born 2013-2025.
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