Pós
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Pós is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 929 people, counted by CBG Familienamenbank in 2007. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű vagy lakóhelyre utaló, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Végső forrása lehet a ’kicsi, kis, csekély, kevés’ jelentésű parvus szó.
- NLNetherlands1 in 19K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 97K
- CZCzechia1 in 131K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
929 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pos in BR Brazil.
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)Típusa: Apanévi eredetű vagy lakóhelyre utaló, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Végső forrása lehet a ’kicsi, kis, csekély, kevés’ jelentésű parvus szó. Ez már a latin nyelvben Paulus alakban lett ragadványnév (cognomen), majd nemzetségnév, s gyakori egyénnév. Az egész keresztény világban kedvelt keresztnévvé vált. Mind az Árpádok, mind az Anjouk korában gyakori keresztnév volt. A magyar nyelvben elmaradt a latin -us végződése, s az -au- kettőshangzó (diftongus) -á-ra vagy -ó-ra egyszerűsödött (monoftongizálódott). Így alakultak ki a Pál ~ Pól névalakok. A Pól változat a szótagzáró -l elmaradása után (Pó-) megkapta az -s kicsinyítő képzőt, s szintén gyakori személynévvé vált. Családnévként jelentése ’Pós (Pál) nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Német eredeztetését elsősorban sok írásváltozata teszi szükségessé. Az -sch-val írott alakok nagy száma ugyanis nem csupán német helyesírási szokásra, hanem a név német voltára utal. Valóban lehetséges egy középfelnémetben gyakori ’bokros, csalitos, bozótos, cserjés (erdő)’ jelentésű Busch ~ Pusch szót keresni a névben. A személynév és az abból alakult családnév eredetileg Buschmann ’bozótos erdőben élő ember’ jelentésű szó volt, amely családnévi használatban még a németben megrövidült. Bajorországi ejtése Busch, és ilyen formában is sok található Magyarországon (152). Ausztriában az ejtése Pusch, amelynek magánhangzója Magyarországra kerülve megnyílt (-u- > -o-) és megnyúlt (-o- > -ó-). Elterjedtsége: A Pós a nyelvterület keleti felében kissé gyakoribb, a Pósch pedig majdnem kizárólag a Dunán túl, annak is az északkeleti részén található.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pós is found
(measured from records)Pós 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 929 | 1 in 19K | 929 | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 220 | 1 in 962K | 220 | Pos | 31 |
| US United States | 168 | 1 in 2M | 181 | — | 24 |
| CZ Czechia | 82 | 1 in 131K | 83 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 71 | 1 in 704K | 71 | — | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | 35 | 1 in 97K | 35 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | 2 |
929 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Sándor Pósb. 1936HUHungarian theatre director (1936–2011)
- Zoltán PósHUresearcher
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pós mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű vagy lakóhelyre utaló, magyar vagy német családnév. Eredete: Végső forrása lehet a ’kicsi, kis, csekély, kevés’ jelentésű parvus szó.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pós?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 929 people named Pós, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, United States, Czechia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pós most common?
- Pós is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pós?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 929 people named Pós in 2007, about 1 in 19 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/p%C3%B3sThe 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, “Pós” — ranked 1879th in the Netherlands (CBG Familienamenbank, 2007). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.