Posey

At the 2020 census, 19,551 Americans bore the surname Posey — 1,793rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,300.

By the numbers

People: 19,551
Rank: 1,793rd
How common: 1 in 15,300
Per 100,000: 6.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Posey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.4%
Black, not Hispanic 21.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Posey

Parker Posey (born 1968)American actress
Tyler Posey (born 1991)American actor, musician
Buster Posey (born 1987)American baseball executive and former player
James Posey (born 1977)American basketball player
Sam Posey (born 1944)American racing driver
Bill Posey (1947–2026)U.S. Representative from Florida
Sandy Posey (1944–2024)American pop singer

People named Posey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Posey

Also a first name

Posey has been given to 995 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.