Bonni
Bonni was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,412 Americans have been recorded with it between 1940 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Bonni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bonni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bonni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,726, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1964, the peak
Bonni peaked in 1964, when 50 girls were given it, #1,612 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,726 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,650 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,804 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,973 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,702 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,794 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,958 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,657 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,924 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,672 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 | #11,569 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,000 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,929 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,073 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,204 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,475 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,863 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,904 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,571 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,363 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,865 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,346 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,441 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,245 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,923 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,188 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,441 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,171 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,689 | 17.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,482 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,125 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,104 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,779 | 26.8 |
| 1967 | 31 | #2,120 | 18.8 |
| 1966 | 37 | #1,884 | 21.9 |
| 1965 | 46 | #1,655 | 26.1 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,612 | 26.4 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,624 | 25.4 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,707 | 22.4 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,840 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 47 | #1,637 | 23.2 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,619 | 22.2 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,704 | 19.9 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,590 | 22.5 |
| 1956 | 45 | #1,580 | 22.4 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,668 | 19.4 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,680 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,241 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,824 | 16.2 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,583 | 20.0 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,058 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,769 | 17.0 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,600 | 20.0 |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,578 | 20.3 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,678 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,702 | 18.4 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,103 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,796 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 23 | #1,765 | 17.0 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,686 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,979 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bonni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bonni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bonni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bonni, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,412 Americans ever recorded as Bonni. The median Bonni alive today is 62 years old; half are between 54 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 1,313 people named Bonni (1,305 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 55 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 564 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 376 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 147 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 22 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Bonni born?
The states with the most babies named Bonni are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 141 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 54 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Bonni is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bonni is most over-represented in New York: since 1940 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bonni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Bonni?
Bonni is a less common spelling of Bonnie: SSA has recorded 1,412 Bonni and 332,712 Bonnie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 343,225 babies since 1880, Bonni is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 785 babies recorded by SSA was a Bonni (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 Bonni
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 Bonni and names like it
- Compare Bonni and BonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sBonni peaked in 1964.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bonni since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Bonni.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bonni alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.