as a Last Name
- 9,715
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Poston
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Old French posterne; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper. 2. habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + þorn ‘thorn tree’.
| 3,193rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Post, Postell, Postma, Postel, Poster, Posten, Postlewait, Postlethwait, Postle, Pestana
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 9,715
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Poston per capita
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