The history of your name

The POSNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,123 9550 0.001 12
United States (1880 census) 189 20165 0 4
Change since 1880 +2934 +10615 +N/A +8
Other Countries
Australia 40 30508 0 2
United Kingdom 333 11876 0.001 7
Top States for POSNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 747 2169 0.004 39
California 409 5979 0.001 12
Florida 399 4437 0.002 25
New Jersey 192 4403 0.002 23
Maryland 164 3159 0.003 31
Top States for POSNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 747 2169 0.004 39
Maryland 164 3159 0.003 31
Washington DC 16 3143 0.003 28
Florida 399 4437 0.002 25
New Jersey 192 4403 0.002 23

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of POSNER

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the POSNER 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.

Ethnic distribution of POSNER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 54 1.73
Mixed Race 40 1.28
Asian/Pacific 26 0.83
White (Caucasian) 2,992 95.81
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of POSNER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of POSNER.

Similar names to POSNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POSNER.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for POSNER

The following words are slight variants of POSNER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.