Posy
Posy or Posey or Posie is an English given name derived from the English term for a small flower bouquet. A posy is also a word for a single flower. It can also be derived from an English nickname, sometimes used independently, for a formal name such as Josephine. The name came into use along with other botanical names for girls in the 1800s.
Meaning & Origin of Posy
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Posy or Posey or Posie is an English given name derived from the English term for a small flower bouquet. A posy is also a word for a single flower. It can also be derived from an English nickname, sometimes used independently, for a formal name such as Josephine. The name came into use along with other botanical names for girls in the 1800s.
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The Story of Posy
Posy first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2014, with 11 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2023: 14 births, good for #7,636 nationwide. About 53% of every Posy on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Posy last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 100 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2010s to the 2020s.
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About the name Posy
Posy is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2014 and has accumulated 100 births in the dataset. Posy's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #7,636. Use the chart and map above to compare Posy's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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