Posie
Feminine · “small bunch of flowers”
Posie is given to both — 533 girls and 60 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Posy is a bunch of flowers, and the word is the same as 'poesy' — bouquets once carried verses.
How old is the name Posie?
Posie first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Posie is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 500 people named Posie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Posie most popular?
Posie peaked in 2021, reaching #2186 nationally. Today it ranks #2645, 459 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From poiesis to Posie
The story of Posie
A posy was originally a short verse — the motto engraved inside a wedding ring or attached to a bunch of flowers — and the word is 'poesy' worn down; the flowers took the name from the poem. Posy is a modern English name and Posie a variant. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
small bunch of flowers
From the English posy, a variant of poesy, 'poetry', from the Greek poiesis, 'making'. Rings and bouquets carried short verses called posies, and the sense narrowed to the flowers. The etymology is documented and unusually neat.
How the name formed
- poiesis
- poesy
- posy
- Posie
Related forms: Posy · Poesy
Pronouncing Posie
POH-zee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Posie and Posy are homophones.
Nicknames for Posie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most girls named
- 202185 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2186reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +25.0%65 in 2025, from 52
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Posie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Posy in English — spelling variant
- Poesy in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Posies among us
people named Posie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 24,727 born in 2025 was named Posie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Katrinka test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Posie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Katrinka climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Katrinka's path sketches the road Posie is walking now.
Posie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Posie is headed
Posie looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Posie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Posie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That a posy was originally a verse and not the flowers is a first-rate etymology.
- That poesy and poetry share the Greek for 'making' is a genuinely good connection.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- It reads as a diminutive rather than a full name.
- Posy is the commoner spelling.
- It is strongly English-coded.
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Frequently asked
- How many Posies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Posie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Posie in 2025?
- Posie ranks #2645 among US girl names in 2025, with 65 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Posie?
- About 1 in every 24,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Posie — 65 in all.
- Will my child share the name Posie with classmates?
- Posie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Posie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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