Posada
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: innkeeper or for someone who worked at an inn, from Sp. posada inn (a deriv. of posar to rest, stay, LL pausdre, from Gk). Dims.: Fr.: Porcheron. Prov.: Pourcheiroux
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/posada/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Posada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.7K
- UYUruguay1 in 2.4K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
innkeeper or for someone who worked at an inn, from Sp. posada inn (a deriv. of posar to rest, stay, LL pausdre, from Gk). Dims.: Fr.: Porcheron. Prov.: Pourcheiroux. Poreau see Poireau Porkiss see Purchase
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Posada is read(measured from records)
Posada is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish75%
innkeeper or for someone who worked at an inn, from Sp. posada inn (a deriv. of posar to rest, stay, LL pausdre, from Gk). Dims.: Fr.: Porcheron. Prov.: Pourcheiroux. Poreau see Poireau Porkiss see Purchase
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
hotel, inn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
A traditional Mexican Christmas procession.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Nine Days of, 3rd week of Dec.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Mexico
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Posada 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #189 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 24 | Posada | 156 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Posada | 5 |
| US United States | — | 7,454 | 1 in 45K | 7.5K | Posada | 306 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,616 | 1 in 11K | 4.6K | Posada | 128 |
| SV El Salvador | #249 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Posada | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | #415 | 1,383 | 1 in 2.4K | 1.4K | Posada | 35 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Posada | 32 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Posada is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, a locality in Comarnic, Prahova County, Romania
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Guadalupe Posadab. 1852MXMexican lithographer (1852–1913)
- Jaime Posada Díazb. 1924COfounder of the Universidad de América, Bogotá
- Luis Posada Mendozab. 1925ESSpanish actor (1925-1992)
- Luis Posada Carrilesb. 1928VECuban terrorist and CIA agent (1928–2018)
- Jesús Posadab. 1945ESPresident of the Spanish Congress of Deputies in the Tenth Legislature
- Noemí Sanínb. 1949COnot in their usual nameColombian politician and diplomat
- Lluís Posada Cugatb. 1963ESCatalan actor
- Fabiola Posadab. 1963COColombian comedian (1963–2024)
- Jorge Posadab. 1970USprofessional baseball player
- Víctor Aristizábalb. 1971COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.5K | #4,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.5K | #4,751 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,789 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.6K | #1,143 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.6K | #1,143 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.4K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 24 | #92 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Posada mean, and where does it come from?
- innkeeper or for someone who worked at an inn, from Sp. posada inn (a deriv. of posar to rest, stay, LL pausdre, from Gk). Dims.: Fr.: Porcheron. Prov.: Pourcheiroux. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Posada?
- A machine transcription gives /posada/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Posada?
- In the etymology graph, Reposo and Reposar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Posada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Posada in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled posada.
- How common is the name Posada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,454 people named Posada in 2010, about 1 in 45 thousand residents.
- How common is Posada compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Posada is the 189th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/posadaThe 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, “Posada” — the 189th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.