Post
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by a landmark post or pole, or a Jewish name of unknown origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Post is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 436 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person who lives by a landmark post or pole, or a Jewish name of unknown origin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Post counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 23K | Post | 436 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Post | 114 |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | Post | 40 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 521 | Post | 121 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | Post | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 530 | Post | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 14K | — | 133 |
| DK Denmark | — | 705 | — | 55 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Post is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a nickname from OE/OFr post ‘post, pillar’; first attested William Post 1148 Winton (Hampshire).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In German, from Slavic pozd- 'late'; compare asl. pozdu 'late'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, mail, post office
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In ine-pro, prep./adv.
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
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)
- Frans Postb. 1612NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1612–1680)
- George Browne Postb. 1837USAmerican architect (1837–1913)
- C. W. Postb. 1854USAmerican businessman (1854-1914)
- Emily Price Postb. 1872USAmerican writer and etiquette expert
- Marjorie Merriweather Postb. 1887USAmerican businesswoman (1887–1973)
- Emil Postb. 1897USPolish-born American logician (1897–1954)
- Wiley Postb. 1898USAmerican aviator; first pilot to fly solo around the world (1898–1935)
- Ted Postb. 1918USAmerican director (1918-2013)
- Markie Postb. 1950USAmerican actress (1950-2021)
- Laura Postb. 1983USAmerican voice actress
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 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 23K | #1,406 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,557 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14K | #30 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 705 | #579 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 530 | #16,164 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 521 | #11,023 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Post mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by a landmark post or pole, or a Jewish name of unknown origin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Post have the most bearers?
- Post is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled post.
What do you want to know about Post?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/postThe 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, “Post”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.