Pöse
surname · Latin script
Pöse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (“possession; ownership”).
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 49Kas Poese(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 108Kas Poese
- NLNetherlands1 in 421Kas Poese
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pöse itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 named Poese, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est., as Poese
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Poese in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 3 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)
From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (“possession; ownership”).
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pöse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Poese | 1 |
| ML Mali | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Poese | 1 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Poese | 62 |
| DE Germany | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 899K | — | Poese | 41 |
| NL Netherlands | 41as Poese | 1 in 421K | 41 | Poese | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Poese | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 1as Poese | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jörg Pöseb. 1962DEGerman 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Pöse mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese posse (“possession; ownership”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Pöse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Poese in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pöse?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 41 people named Poese in 2007, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pöse?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%B6seThe 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, “Pöse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.