Posey
#3,389 for girls in 2025, 45 births · Last seen for boys in 1956 at #2,969
Given to girls 60.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 54 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 599since 1922
Posey over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,389 | 45 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,329 | 48 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,033 | 54 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,157 | 51 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,221 | 48 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | — | |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | — | |
| 2017 | #4,384 | 32 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,544 | 31 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,143 | 26 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | — | |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 | — | |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | — | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,969 | 8 | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
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| 1951 | — | #2,844 | 8 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,009 | 12 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
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| 1939 | — | #2,288 | 10 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,868 | 7 | |
| 1937 | — | #2,479 | 9 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #2,742 | 8 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,368 | 10 | |
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #2,328 | 11 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #3,247 | 7 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #2,523 | 11 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,385 | 7 | |
| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | #2,446 | 12 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | #2,630 | 11 |
| 1921 | — | #1,980 | 17 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,966 | 17 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,882 | 17 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,905 | 17 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,562 | 10 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,771 | 17 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,184 | 12 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,868 | 12 | |
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| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
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| 1910 | — | #1,314 | 7 | |
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| 1899 | — | #1,051 | 5 | |
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| 1896 | — | #900 | 7 | |
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| 1892 | — | #956 | 6 | |
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| 1889 | — | #878 | 6 | |
| 1888 | — | #1,031 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Posey! It came in at #4,445, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1923–2007, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Posey
- 112 spots since 2024 (#3,277 → #3,389)
- 168 spots since 2020 (#3,221 → #3,389)
- 316 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,389)
- Debuted 1922
- Peaked 2022 at #3,033 (54 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 30,373 girls born in 2022 were named Posey (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 35,717 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 49.1% of all girls named Posey (294) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2007, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 11 | #4,445 (1922) | #4,706 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,753 (1954) | #5,753 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 24 | #9,379 (2009) | #9,428 |
| 2010s | 265 | #3,705 (2015) | #6,014 |
| 2020s | 294 | #3,033 (2022) | #3,234 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Posey in 1922
Top girls' names in 1922
Top boys' names in 1922
More about 1922
girls
1,201,003 girls got a published name in 1922; 1 in 200,167 of them was named Posey, which outranked 23.2% of the 5,789 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,011Zana7
- #4,011Zenaida7
- #4,011Zoie7
- #4,445Posey6
- #4,445Aaron6
- #4,445Acie6
- #4,445Adalaide6
- #5,009Abelina5
- #5,009Adair5
- #5,009Adalia5
Tied with 563 names at #4,445; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,088,154 boys got a published name in 1922; 1 in 98,923 of them was named Posey, which outranked 47.1% of the 4,967 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,486Willey12
- #2,486Yancey12
- #2,486Yancy12
- #2,630Posey11
- #2,630Acy11
- #2,630Agustus11
- #2,630Alberta11
- #2,801Alanson10
- #2,801Alcee10
- #2,801Aldine10
Tied with 170 names at #2,630; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.