Girls' name · since 2014
Posy
106 babies named Posy in U.S. Social Security records since 2014, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,521 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,456 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 106
- born since 2014
- 2010s
- peak decade
Yes -- Posy is the #14456 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 106 recorded since 2014.
Posy has 106 recorded births among girls since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14456 as of the latest data, more common than 16% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #26,521 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,456 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 106 born since 2014
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Posy ranks #26,521 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,456 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 106 born since 2014, peaking in the 2010s.
- #26,521 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,456 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 106
- born since 2014
- 2010s
- peak decade
Posy's 106 recorded births place it above 63.3% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Posy compares
106 26th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Posy's all-time total is 72% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Posy | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 106 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Posy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Posy's full recorded timeline at 2020, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 14 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Posy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Posy by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (53 births, 50% of the file).
2010s was Posy's strongest decade.
53 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 50% of all-time use.
Posy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
53 births
- 2020s
2020s
53 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 53 births (50% of all-time use).
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What to do with Posy's data
- Posy's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (53 total births) through the 2020s (53) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Posy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2023)
Similar record span (~11 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Posy draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.