as a Last Name
- 18,423
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Posey
Meaning & Origins
Possibly an altered spelling of German Pose (or Poser 2), a habitational name from Posa or Poserna, south of Merseburg, or a topographic name from Middle Low German pōse ‘lump’, ‘pile’ (from which the place names may also derive).
| 1,680th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,423
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alabama
- has the most people named Posey per capita
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