Entry № 8237 · English origin

Posy Posy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POH-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Small bouquet, poetry"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "small bouquet, poetry".

Posy is the English word for a small bouquet of flowers — also a diminutive of Josephine.

Posy is rising in modern British naming. Posy Simmonds (born 1945) is the British cartoonist (Tamara Drewe).

Small bouquet, poetry-ring. The British dainty.

The name in its native script.

Posy
Transliteration
Posy
Pronunciation
/ ˈpoʊ.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Posy stands.

Posy does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Posys before her.

Real people
Posy Simmonds
British cartoonist.
born 1945
In fiction
Posy Fossil
Heroine of Ballet Shoes.
Noel Streatfeild, 1936

Names connected to Posy.

The number behind Posy.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Posy reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.