Bonney
Bonney was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 452 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bonney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bonney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,607, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1950, the peak
Bonney peaked in 1950, when 21 girls were given it, #2,126 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #12,607 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,477 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,618 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,938 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,576 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,371 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,915 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,546 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,469 | 3.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,699 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 7 | #5,686 | 4.3 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,656 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,906 | 4.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,379 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,820 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,899 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,331 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,099 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,233 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,061 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,554 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,704 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,124 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,824 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,251 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,126 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,528 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,156 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,360 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,325 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,346 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,215 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,877 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,321 | 11.1 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,607 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,542 | 6.1 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,265 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,285 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,247 | 5.2 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,925 | 5.9 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,447 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,909 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bonney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 452 Americans recorded as Bonney, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bonney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bonney, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Bonney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 60 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 461 people named Bonney (431 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 354 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Bonney?
Bonney is a less common spelling of Bonnie: SSA has recorded 452 Bonney and 332,712 Bonnie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 342,933 babies since 1880, Bonney is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 785 babies recorded by SSA was a Bonney (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 Bonney
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 Bonney and names like it
- Compare Bonney and BonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBonney peaked in 1950.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Bonney.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bonney alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.