Posa Family History

Italian: nickname from posa ‘attitude air’ also ‘repose stillness’. Italian: from the feminine form of the personal name Poso, a variant of Boso.

Spanish: probably a variant of Poza, a topographic name for someone who lived by a well or pit poza (from Latin putea from puteus ‘well pit’).

Catalan: probably from a variant of old Catalan possa ‘well pit’ (from Latin putea; see 3 above) found in some placenames.

Hungarian (Pósa): from a pet form of the personal name Pál, Hungarian form of Paul.