Bonni — girls' name
1,412 babies named Bonni in U.S. Social Security records since 1940, with the highest year being 1964. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Bonni was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Bonni in 1964 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Bonni
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,412 babies named Bonni between 1940 and 2023, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Bonni currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Bonni performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 423 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Bonni shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Bonni in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Bonni in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,412 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Bonni at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Bonni popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1940
- Peak year (1964)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 84 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,412 total births across 84 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1964 with 50 births in a single year.
Bonni by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 423 births that decade — 30% of Bonni's all-time total
Bonni decade highlights
- Peak decade 423 births
- Runner-up 361 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Bonni's strongest decade
423 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Bonni by state
Where Bonni concentrates geographically — total births since 1940
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 141 | 10.0% |
| #2 | California | | 54 | 3.8% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 17 | 1.2% |
| #4 | Ohio | | 11 | 0.8% |
| #5 | Wisconsin | | 10 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Florida | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Minnesota | | 5 | 0.4% |
141 of 1,412 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 10.0% of nationwide
- California 3.8% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.2% of nationwide
- Ohio 0.8% of nationwide
- Wisconsin 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 10.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1940–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.