Posie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Posie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Posie: Recorded since 2005, it reached #397 in 2020, and it stood at #654 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
17times a registrar ranked it
20years from first to last
#397highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2013	#4739
2014	#5691
2016	#4096
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#1349
2020	#955
2021	#1069
2022	#910
2023	#754
2024	#654

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 12 of the 20 years from 2005 to 2024.

In 2024: #654 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2005–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2005
First recorded at #4798 among girls in England and Wales in 2005 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #654 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Posie appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 12 years beginning in 2005, and has registered 271 births with the name.

Posie across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Posie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#654 (2024)	#654 (2024)	12 of 20	271 (2005–2024)	59 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#700 (2020)	#700 (2020)	#905 (2022)	3 of 3	10 (2020–2022)	4 (2020)

Posie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Posie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	56	6 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	212	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Posie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #397 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Posie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#654	59	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#754	47	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1069	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#955	36	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2005 and 2024, ranked in 12 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #397, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 59 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

3decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 3 decades →
9 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
3separate stretches the record falls into3 separate stretches →
7 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#654position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
19 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 11 to 20 years →
59births registered in its largest year, 202450 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Portia · #355, 29y
Posey · #2411, 10y
Posy · #1311, 22y
Poyraz · #1812, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Crue · #395, 10y
Knox · #392, 15y
Creed · #404, 10y
Romee · #407, 11y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Amelia-Grace · #397, 20y
Ara · #397, 19y
Ayva · #397, 20y
Domantas · #397, 17y

Posie was ranked #397 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Posie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Posie without appearing here.

Posie moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2187 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #5591.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2706 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2187 and #5666.
Maren Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4739 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2706 and #5765.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2706 and #2706 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #4001.

Moved ahead of Posie

Fiadh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #5691 and #5691.

Moved the opposite way to Posie

Abigail Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 while Aimee went from #49 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 while Aisling went from #657 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 while Alex went from #251 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Posie

Ada Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 and Ada from #951 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 and Alma from #1500 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 and Amelia from #15 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2005 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Posie went from #4798 to #654 and Aria from #1295 to #35.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2005 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #397 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Posie

Posie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Posie across 2 official records

Posie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Posie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Posie at a glance

Posie across 2 official records

Posie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Posie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Posie

Posie and the names beside it

Posie moved ahead of

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