The POSEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	19,648	1669	0.007	73
United States (1880 census)	3,437	1783	0.007	69
Change since 1880	+16211	+114	0	+4
Other Countries
Australia	2	228360	0	0
United Kingdom	50	26090	0	1

Top States for POSEY by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	2,374	289	0.053	534
Texas	2,051	1277	0.010	98
Georgia	1,119	1001	0.014	137
Florida	1,033	2070	0.006	65
Tennessee	998	914	0.018	175
Top States for POSEY by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Alabama	2,374	289	0.053	534
Mississippi	894	513	0.031	314
West Virginia	458	621	0.025	253
South Carolina	780	868	0.019	194
Louisiana	807	844	0.018	181

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called POSEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called POSEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called POSEY in Alabama than any other state, but you are more likely to find a POSEY by picking someone at random in Alabama than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of POSEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POSEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the POSEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of POSEY in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	283	1.44
Native American/Alaskan	226	1.15
White (Hispanic)	224	1.14
Asian/Pacific	53	0.27
White (Caucasian)	14,777	75.21
Black/African American	4,087	20.8

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the POSEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to POSEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POSEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.