Pose

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Pose is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish71%

  pose (unnatural posture)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English11%

  Common cold, head cold; catarrh.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French6.0%

  installation, the act of laying, putting down (e.g. a building element)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• French surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Cameroon

  Also written Posé, Posè, Pösë, Posė, Pösé

• English surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Philippines

  Languages: English, Dutch

  Also written Posé, Põsē

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Posé

• Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Posé

38 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.

Pose is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In pi, inflection of posa (“man”):

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, pose (position, arrangement (especially of the human body))

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In poz-oce-pro, canoe paddle; paddle a canoe

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

• Óscar Diego Gestidob. 1901UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan politician (1901-1967)
• Heinz Poseb. 1905DEGerman physicist (1905–1975)
• Álvaro Gestidob. 1907UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer (1907-1957)
• Martín Poseb. 1911ARArgentinian golfer (1911-1997)
• Jörg Poseb. 1959DEGerman actor
• Scott Poseb. 1967USAmerican baseball player
• Adrián Berbiab. 1977UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
• Vanessa Poseb. 1990VEVenezuelan actress
• Allen Córdobab. 1995PAnot in their usual namePanamanian professional baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres
• Lucas Poseactor

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Pose come from?

installation, the act of laying, putting down (e.g. a building element) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Pose?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈpo.se/ (Wiktionary); in English /poʊz/ (Wiktionary); in French /poz/ (Wiktionary).

What does the name Pose mean?

In Spanish, pose (unnatural posture)

In which country does Pose have the most bearers?

In Spain, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Pose, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pose.

Where is Pose most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pose is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Pose?

In Spain, the national register counted 3,133 people named Pose, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.

How common is Pose compared with other names?

In Uruguay, Pose is the 185th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.