Poston
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Tom, US actor
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈpoʊstən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Poston is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
10,396 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
United States
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)Tom, US actor
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poston 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,396 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Poston | 14 |
| CZ Czechia | 3 | 1 in 3.6M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | Poston | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Poston | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 438 | Poston | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Poston | 1 |
10,396 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Debrille Postonb. 1825USAmerican author, explorer, and federal politician (1825-1902)
- Elizabeth Postonb. 1905GBEnglish composer, pianist and writer
- Tom Postonb. 1921USAmerican actor (1921–2007)
- Dudley L. Postonb. 1940USAmerican demographer, statistician and sociologist
- Tim Postonb. 1945GBBritish mathematician (1945-2017)
- John Postonb. 1958USAmerican politician
- McCracken Postonb. 1959USAmerican lawyer and politician
- J. T. Postonb. 1993USAmerican golfer
- Lurie Postonb. 1996USAmerican actor
- Lucilla PostonGBBritish physiologist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,576 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 438 | #12,589 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #164,660 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3 | #22,934 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Poston mean, and where does it come from?
- Tom, US actor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Poston?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpoʊstən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Poston have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Poston, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poston.
- Where is Poston most common?
- Poston is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Poston?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,396 people named Poston in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Poston?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/postonThe 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, “Poston”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.