Posy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- POH-zee
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,460 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Posy is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “small bunch of flowers”. In 2025 it ranked 1,460th for girls in the UK (22 babies) and 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Posy mean?
English: word name
“small bunch of flowers”
From posy, a small bouquet, a word that began as poesy, a short verse inscribed inside a ring.
Is Posy a girl's or a boy's name?
Posy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the UK and 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Posy in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,460th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 13,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the UK were named Posy, making it the 1,460th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,780th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 25 girls.
Half of all the girls named Posy in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 99 girls in the UK were given Posy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #449, up from #1,460 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,407th in England and Wales.
Posy in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #1,460 |
| 2024 | 19 | #1,662 |
| 2023 | 20 | #1,611 |
| 2022 | 25 | #1,363 |
| 2021 | 25 | #1,353 |
| 2020 | 17 | #1,780 |
| 2019 | 15 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | 16 | #1,904 |
| 2017 | 22 | #1,541 |
| 2016 | 12 | #2,363 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
How popular is Posy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Posy, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Posy in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 116 girls in the US were given Posy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,526, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Posy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
Names like Posy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Poppy, Ivy, Primrose, Harper, Lily, Tilly, Everly, Isla, Pippa, Willow, Daisy, Freya
Other spellings of Posy
More English names
Evelyn, Hudson, Grace, Violet, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison, River, Ellie, Frankie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Posy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/posy, updated 20 October 2026.