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.