The Posey surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 20,263 people carried this name — #1,773 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 14,600 people counted. That is up 3% from 19,648 in 2000.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
46 families named Posey, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 234 people lived in those households, 5.1 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 2 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 257 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Posey in American newspapers,
1887–1903.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
In print
Posey in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1950s.
315 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Posey. The most, 75, date from the 1910s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 1.7 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Posey.
Who carried it
People named Posey,
with a public archive behind them.
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Thomas Posey 1750–1818 · politician -
Francis B. Posey 1848–1915 · lawyer -
Alexander Posey 1873–1908 · writer -
Cumberland Posey 1890–1946 · basketball player -
Hercules 1748–1812 · cook
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Alexander Posey 1794– · military leader
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Posey,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States1,022 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 674
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 240
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 63
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 15
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
- Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 7
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 5
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 5
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 2
- Irish Famine arrivals at New York, 1846–1851 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Richard B. PoseyBorn 1912 in West Virginia. Enlisted 1944 at Huntington; driver from Braxton County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Sutton Cemetery, West Virginia.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Thomas A. PoseyBorn 1931; from La Salle County, Louisiana. U.S. Army; killed in action 1951 in South Korea. Buried at Alexandria National Cemetery, Louisiana.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Bettie PoseyArrived at New York in 1881 aboard the Parthia from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 40; matron.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 1,022 records for Posey in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
United Kingdom1 record
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Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919 War record E. PoseyLincolnshire Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.
National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Posey.
- Porto 3,526 · U.S. census
- Portugal 2,263 · U.S. census
- Porzio 660 · U.S. census
- Posada 7,454 · U.S. census
- Pose 275 · U.S. census
- Poser 448 · 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
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