Pusey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person from Pusey, Oxfordshire, 'island where peas grow'; (ii) person from Pusey, northern France, 'Pusius's settlement'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpjuzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pusey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 156K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 14K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
2,127 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Person from Pusey, Oxfordshire, 'island where peas grow'; (ii) person from Pusey, northern France, 'Pusius's settlement'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pusey 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 | — | 2,127 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Pusey | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 1.5K | Pusey | 133 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Pusey | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Pusey | 1 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Pusey | 29 |
| JM Jamaica | #778 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Pusey | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Pusey | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Pusey | 5 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
2,127 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); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)
Pusey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A small village and civil parish (without a council) in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU3596).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Edward B., English theologian
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, from Le Puiset, Eure-et-Loire; first attested Henry de Puset 1219 P (Y)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Philip Bouverie-Puseyb. 1746GBEnglish landowner
- Philip Puseyb. 1799GBBritish politician (1799-1855)
- William Henry Mills Puseyb. 1826USAmerican politician (1826–1900)
- William A. Puseyb. 1865USAmerican physician (1865–1940)
- Frederick Taylor Puseyb. 1872USAmerican politician (1872–1936)
- Nathan M. Puseyb. 1907USAmerican academic (1907-2001)
- Mavis Puseyb. 1928USJamaican-American artist (1928-2019)
- Michael Puseyb. 1939USsociologist
- Jacqueline Puseyb. 1959JMJamaican athletics competitor
- Chris Puseyb. 1965CACanadian ice hockey player
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,190 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.5K | #4,683 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #226 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Pusey?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpjuzi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pusey mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person from Pusey, Oxfordshire, 'island where peas grow'; (ii) person from Pusey, northern France, 'Pusius's settlement'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Pusey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Pusey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pusey.
- How common is the name Pusey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,127 people named Pusey in 2010, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Pusey compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Pusey is the 778th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/puseyThe 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, “Pusey” — the 778th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.