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The POSS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 3,785 8072 0.001 14
United States (1880 census) 407 11331 0.001 8
Change since 1880 +3378 +3259 0 +6
Other Countries
Australia 11 83768 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for POSS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 761 1776 0.009 93
Tennessee 257 3695 0.005 45
Alabama 242 3199 0.005 54
Texas 242 9493 0.001 12
Florida 212 11101 0.001 13
Top States for POSS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 761 1776 0.009 93
South Dakota 55 2899 0.007 73
Alabama 242 3199 0.005 54
Nebraska 82 3951 0.005 48
Tennessee 257 3695 0.005 45

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

Classification and Origin of POSS

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the POSS surname.

Ethnic distribution of POSS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 238 6.29
White (Hispanic) 56 1.48
Mixed Race 46 1.22
Native American/Alaskan 20 0.53
Asian/Pacific 12 0.32
White (Caucasian) 3,413 90.17

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

POSS is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of POSS in historical publications

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

Similar names to POSS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as POSS.

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 POSS

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