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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : habitational name from Posa a locality of Treviso.
  • Italian : nickname from posa ‘attitude’, ‘air’, also ‘repose’, ‘stillness’.
  • Spanish : probably a variant of Poza, topographic name for someone who lived by a well or pit, from Spanish poza (Latin putea; compare Pozo), or variant of Spanish Posada.
  • Catalan : probably variant of old Catalan possa ‘well’ ‘pit’, common in some Catalan place names (Latin putea).
  • Hungarian (Pósa) : from a pet form of the personal name Pál, Hungarian form of Paul.

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