What We Know About the Posey Surname

Posey is an English surname. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “one who came from Poce, in France; dweller near a post by the enclosure”. Place names like this marked newcomers by where they had come from.

The 2010 US Census counted 20,263 people named Posey, ranking it number 1,773 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 2,500 US surnames.

Coats of arms were borne by individual families. If arms are recorded under the Posey name, our researchers explain whose they were and how they were blazoned. Get the complete Posey report, with a museum-style coat of arms.