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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 30,373 of them was named Posey, which outranked 82.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,995Xylah55
- #2,995Zamiyah55
- #2,995Zori55
- #3,033Posey54
- #3,033Afton54
- #3,033Alorah54
- #3,033Analeigh54
- #3,073Addy53
- #3,073Aleyda53
- #3,073Amoni53
Tied with 39 names at #3,033; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.