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What does Posy mean?

Posy Pronunciation of Posy as a girls' name is of English origin, and the meaning of Posy is "a bunch of flowers". Also used as a short form of Josephine, Penelope or Sophia.

STARTS WITH Po-

ASSOCIATED WITH flowers

Variations

VARIANT Posey

ALTERNATIVE FORMS VIA JOSEPHINE, PENELOPE, SOPHIA Jo, Joey, Josee, Josey, Josie, Josy, Jozsa, Pen, Penny, Sofy, Sofya, Sonya, Sophy, Zofi, Zofya, Zosia

CREATIVE FORMS
(female)

(male)


MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Posy Symphony (P.S.), ..

How popular is Posy?

Posy is an uncommon given name for females. Posy is an equivalently rare last name too for all people. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)

Which version is better?

Sophia (#5 IN RECENT RANKINGS), Penelope (#26), Josephine (#91), Josie (#192), Penny (#755), Joey (#1447), Sonya (#1697), Jo and Josey are the popular alternative forms of Posy (NOT IN TOP 2000) rated in the Top 2000. Other forms, like Sofy, are uncommon. These forms of Posy were favored as baby names in the year 2013 (AVERAGE #968) and are almost as popular today (#912, DOWN 9%), but with forms such as Josephine becoming somewhat outmoded. Penelope is the most chic name for newborns in this compilation. (2018 U.S. SSA RECORDS)



Top 2000 baby names ranking of Jo, Joey, Josephine, Josey, Josie in U.S.

Top 2000 baby names ranking of Penelope, Penny, Sonya, Sophia in U.S.

Top 100 baby names ranking of Josephine, Penelope, Penny, Sophia outside U.S.

Similar Names

Posy is alike in pronunciation to Paza. Other recommended sound-alike names are Casy, Elsy, Essy, Issy, Kasy, Lesy, Pansy, Patsy, Peony, Pola, Poli, Poll, Polly, Poppy, Rosy, Susy and Ursy. These names tend to be more commonly used than Posy.

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