The Poser surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 448 people carried this name — #47,356 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 666,700 people counted. That is up 2% from 438 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 51 people named Poser.
23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
22 people named Poser live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
22 people named Poser is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Poser,
with a public archive behind them.
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Heinrich Poser 1599–1661 · writer -
Christian Gottfried Poser 1771–1852 · pedagogue -
Carl Friedrich von Poser und Groß-Naedlitz 1700–1776 · Landrat
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Moritz von Poser und Groß-Naedlitz 1783–1783 · Landrat
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Karl Poser 1870–1916 · architect
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Paul Poser 1876–1940 · architect
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Poser.
- Portillo 37,890 · U.S. census
- Portmann 341 · U.S. census
- Porto 3,526 · U.S. census
- Portugal 2,263 · U.S. census
- Porzio 660 · U.S. census
- Pose 275 · U.S. census
- Poss 3,209 · U.S. census
- Posson 203 · U.S. census
- Post 23,458 · U.S. census
- Postal 440 · U.S. census
- Poste 180 · U.S. census
- Postel 1,072 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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