Boni
Boni was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 368 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Boni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Boni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,019, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
26 babies in 1955, the peak
Boni peaked in 1955, when 26 girls were given it, #2,112 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #14,019 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,244 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,321 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,467 | 4.8 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,439 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,562 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,143 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,403 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,673 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,445 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 10 | #4,516 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,655 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,948 | 10.6 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,333 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,527 | 7.4 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,290 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,609 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,568 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,472 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,113 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,242 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,733 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,196 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,112 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,785 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,077 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,966 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,739 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,372 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,646 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,617 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,919 | 7.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,025 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,069 | 4.6 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,526 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Boni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Boni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Boni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Boni, and how old are they?
An estimated 302 Americans named Boni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 58 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 625 people named Boni (467 women and girls, 158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 322 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Boni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Boni?
Boni is a less common spelling of Bonnie: SSA has recorded 368 Boni and 332,712 Bonnie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 342,600 babies since 1880, Boni is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 785 babies recorded by SSA was a Boni (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Boni
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Boni and names like it
- Compare Boni and BonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBoni peaked in 1955.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Boni since 1910.
- The top names of 1955The year the most babies were named Boni.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Boni alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.