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Bonny

Girls' name

Fine, beautiful, through Bonnie

Bonny has been given to 6,469 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 269 recorded.

Babies named Bonny, 2024

1 in 557,000

Bonny over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bonny: meaning, origin, and history

Fine, beautiful, through Bonnie

English

What Bonny means

Bonny belongs to the name family reached through Bonny → Bonnie. Its meaning is “fine, beautiful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Bonny is used in English. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Bonnie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,208 girls were recorded with the name Bonny between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 269 in 1958; its best national rank was #594 in 1955.

In the United States, 261 boys were recorded with the name Bonny between 1917 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1929; its best national rank was #1,991 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bonny?

Bonny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bonny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bonny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bonnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bonny was born before 1957 — so the typical Bonny is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,475
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1950s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (1,958).

Is Bonny rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (269)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#594
1955

Spellings of Bonny

Bonny is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 55.8% against Bonny's 0.42%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bonny is used

Across 1910–2025, Bonny was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 45,492 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 25,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 33,333
  5. 5Michigan1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 33,333
  7. 7Ohio1 in 33,333
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bonny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bonny around the world

Where Bonny ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2017–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • France
    1988–2024
    #7,421
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Bonny

People whose public names include Bonny, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Bonny in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Bonny. Linked forms have their own page here.

BonneyBonnieBony

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Bonny by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#594
1955
Peak year
1958
269 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
6,208
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,991
1938
Peak year
1929
14 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bonny

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GinnyFannySunnyBunnyJohnnyDannyBonitaBonniBonnaHennySonnyLennyAnnyBennyJannyKennyAriannyJennyPennyGennyBonneJinnyEliannyMelanny

Names with a curve like Bonny

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Bonny, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JacqueNanciMariannLynAletaRoseanneMickieLouannRandyCarleenSuzanDaryl

Sibling names for Bonny

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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