Bonnita
Bonnita was last recorded in 1978, when 8 babies were given it; 683 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bonnita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bonnita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,013, in 1978; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1949, the peak
Bonnita peaked in 1949, when 31 girls were given it, #1,702 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | #7,013 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,628 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,371 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,083 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,974 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,222 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,404 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,562 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,086 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,477 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 13 | #3,803 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,657 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 11 | #3,981 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,523 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,921 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,630 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,823 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 18 | #2,970 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,909 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,991 | 7.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,953 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,502 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,458 | 10.5 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,985 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,075 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,078 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,414 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,775 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,259 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,702 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,747 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,950 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,622 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,614 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,613 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,998 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,055 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,549 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,544 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,311 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,209 | 7.2 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,759 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,747 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,459 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,492 | 4.7 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,502 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bonnita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bonnita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bonnita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bonnita, and how old are they?
An estimated 490 Americans named Bonnita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 62 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 527 people named Bonnita (527 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 547 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Bonnita?
Bonnita is a less common spelling of Bonita: SSA has recorded 683 Bonnita and 37,854 Bonita since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,958 babies since 1880, Bonnita is the second most given (1.8% of them).
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 Bonnita
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 Bonnita and names like it
- Compare Bonnita and BonitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sBonnita peaked in 1949.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bonnita since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Bonnita.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bonnita alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.