Poša
surname · Latin script
Poša is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 28K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 36K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 72K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
733 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Portia in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cf. tc. possa depozit" (DR I 287). 1. - b., ard., 1181 (11-13 C I 6) ; alt Posa (14 C I 47) ; - fam., olt. (AO XVII 314) ; - Anton, ard., 1757 (RA II 409). 2. Poslea, fam., In Posesti (Prah) ; -escu. 3. Posoiu (Ac Bz 36). 4. Cu suf. cuman -oba, -aba : Posobesti (16 B II 292).
Sources 2
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Poša counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 733 | 1 in 1.8M | 733 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 502 | 1 in 663K | 8.5K | Portia | 9 |
| ES Spain | 200 | 1 in 250K | 200 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 163 | 1 in 1.3M | 163 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 154 | 1 in 36K | 154 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 151 | 1 in 28K | 151 | Poša | 17 |
| RS Serbia | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 72K | listed | Poša | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 25 | 1 in 336K | 25 | — | 1 |
733 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 151 | #5,503 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 138 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Poša have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 733 people named Poša, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Poša most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Poša is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Poša?
- In India, the national register counted 733 people named Poša, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Poša?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/po%C5%A1aThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poša”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.