Pósa

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Pósa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 663K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 28K
  • FIFinland1 in 36K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈840 people, est.

Sources
170 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Posa in US United States, PH Philippines, IN India and 2 more.

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)

recorded in Romanian

cf. tc. possa depozit" (DR I 287). 1. - b., ard., 1181 (11-13 C I 6) ; alt Posa (14 C I 47) ; - fam., olt. (AO XVII 314) ; - Anton, ard., 1757 (RA II 409). 2. Poslea, fam., In Posesti (Prah) ; -escu. 3. Posoiu (Ac Bz 36). 4. Cu suf. cuman -oba, -aba : Posobesti (16 B II 292).

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pósa 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.

Where Pósa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈840 est.≈1 in 74K—Posa17
IN India7331 in 1.8M733Posa17
RO Romania≈590 est.≈1 in 36K—Posa7
PH Philippines≈530 est.≈1 in 206K—Posa22
US United States5021 in 663K568Posa170
HU Hungary≈170 est.≈1 in 58K—Pósa36
FI Finland1541 in 36K154—3
HR Croatia1511 in 28K151——

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 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Pósa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Italy, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, French, Italian

    Also written Posa, Pouze, Pôsa, Posá, Pôsą

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Pösa, Poša, Posa, Poșa

  • Romanian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, Spain

    Also written Posa, Poșa, Pőșą, Pöșä, Poša

  • Croatian surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Poša, Posa, Portia, Поша, Posha

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pósa 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 Irish, present subjunctive analytic of pós

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1850190019502000Lajos Pósa, b. 1850Miklós Erdélyi, b. 1868János Pósa, b. 1910Béla Pósa, b. 1914Lajos Pósa, b. 1947Zoltán Pósa, b. 1948Károly Pósa, b. 1970Anikó Pósa, b. 1981

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Pósa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 842 people named Pósa in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled posa.
Where is Pósa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pósa is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pósa?
In India, the national register counted 733 people named Pósa, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.

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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, “Pósa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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