Posie

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Peak · girls
#2,186
2021 · 85 births
Debut · girls
1914
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
533
since 1914

Posie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #2,829, 1915girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five girls were named Posie! It came in at #3,188, and was given to 6 baby girls.

Quietest stretch: 1915–2010, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Posie is popular in 2025

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
  • Not published
Alaska: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedCTCalifornia: #2,487 for girls · 7 births · 1 in 23,103 girlsCAUtah: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedARTennessee: #983 for girls · 6 births · 1 in 5,346 girlsTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedALGeorgia: #1,533 for girls · 5 births · 1 in 9,042 girlsGAHawaii: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 girls named Posie, so not publishedFL

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Top states · girls
  1. Tennessee#983 · 1 in 5,346
  2. Georgia#1,533 · 1 in 9,042
  3. California#2,487 · 1 in 23,103

Best ever in a state: #380 in Idaho, 2023.

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Tennessee#98361 in 5,346
Georgia#1,53351 in 9,042
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.

See more about Posie
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 436 spots since 2024 (#3,081 → #2,645)
  • 122 spots since 2020 (#2,523 → #2,645)
  • 10,361 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #2,645)
Rise & fade · girls
107 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 2021 at #2,186 (85 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 18,877
  • Highest: 1 in 18,877 girls born in 2023 were named Posie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 24,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,186 in 2021, was only 1 in 19,304 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 79.4% of all girls named Posie (423) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2011
  • Mostly boys until 2010, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#3,188 (1914)#3,188
1920s5#4,973 (1925)#4,973
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2010s99#4,162 (2019)#10,660
2020s423#2,186 (2021)#2,537

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

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