Posie
Posie was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,679 among girls’ names; 593 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Posie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Posie?
#2,679 among girls’ names, 2025
Posie rose from #14,157 in 2015 to #2,679 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 40.4 per million.
85 babies in 2021, the peak
Posie peaked in 2021, when 85 girls were given it, #2,207 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,679 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 52 | #3,111 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 85 | #2,222 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 68 | #2,598 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,207 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 68 | #2,544 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,243 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,055 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,475 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,294 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,157 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,845 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,629 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,296 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 5 | #3,852 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,440 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,682 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,607 | 6 | #4,089 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,188 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 8 | #3,423 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #3,146 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 8 | #3,006 | |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,524 | 5 | #3,629 |
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 Posie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 593 Americans recorded as Posie, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 65 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 Posie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Posie, and how old are they?
An estimated 521 Americans named Posie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 6. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 206 people named Posie (168 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times 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, Posie is the second most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 65 of their 116 babies (56%), the 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Posie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Posie and names like it
- Compare Posie and PoseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPosie peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Posie since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Posie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Posie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.