Posselt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: either from mhd. possolt 'bastelei' or from BOG/BURG (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pusɛlt/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Posselt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 37K
- CZCzechia1 in 127K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, 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.
How to pronounce Posselt
- Portuguese:/pusɛlt/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/posselt/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)either from mhd. possolt 'bastelei' or from BOG/BURG
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Posselt is found
(measured from records)Posselt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Posselt | 100 |
| BR Brazil | 971 | 1 in 218K | 971 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 205 | 1 in 1.6M | 205 | Posselt | 110 |
| DK Denmark | 158 | 1 in 37K | 158 | — | — |
| AU Australia | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 315K | — | Posselt | 41 |
| CZ Czechia | 84 | 1 in 127K | 84 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Posselt | 23 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Posselt 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 German, Wahrscheinlich Übername zu mhd. bōze 'lächerlicher Mensch, geringer Knecht' mit Suffix -olt; nicht sicher Patronym zu Peter. 1041 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Wilhelm Posseltb. 1815ZAGerman missionary (1815-1885)
- Ruth Posseltb. 1911USAmerican musician (1911–2007)
- Bernd Posseltb. 1956DEGerman politician
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Posselt mean, and where does it come from?
- either from mhd. possolt 'bastelei' or from BOG/BURG Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Posselt?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /pusɛlt/; in Spanish /posselt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Posselt?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Posselt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled posselt. After it come Brazil, United States, Denmark and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Posselt?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 971 people named Posselt, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Posselt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/posseltThe 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, “Posselt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.