Posselt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: either from mhd. possolt 'bastelei' or from BOG/BURG
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰɔsl̩t/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Posselt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- DKDenmark1 in 37K
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)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
either from mhd. possolt 'bastelei' or from BOG/BURG
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | 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 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Posselt | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 84 | 1 in 127K | 84 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | 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)
- August Posseltb. 16581658-1728; aus Zittau/Lausitz; Respondent in Wittenberg, Jena und Kiel; Prediger in Hamburg; Prediger, Archidiakon und Pastor in Zittau; Evang. Theologe
- Ernst Ludwig Posseltb. 1763DEGerman historian, editor
- Moritz Conrad Posseltb. 1804DEGerman philosopher (1804-1875)
- Christian Wilhelm Posseltb. 1806DEGerman physician (1806-1877)
- Wilhelm Posseltb. 1815ZAGerman missionary (1815-1885)
- Ernst Carl Louis Posseltb. 1838DEGerman entrepreneur and art collector (1838-1907)
- Irena Posseltb. 1893PLPolish teacher
- Ruth Posseltb. 1911USAmerican musician (1911–2007)
- Roswitha Posseltb. 1915ATAustrian actress
- 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)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 971 | #9,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 205 | #95,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 205 | #90,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 188 | #91,004 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 158 | #3,348 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 84 | #19,363 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 84 | #8,379 |
| 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
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɔsl̩t/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Posselt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Posselt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled posselt.
- How common is the name Posselt?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 971 people named Posselt, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.
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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 2026-10-10.