Bonny
Bonny was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 6,469 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,670 Americans named Bonny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 55 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bonny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bonny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bonny is “a female given name from English.”
Variant of Bonnie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bonny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,752, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
277 babies in 1958, the peak
Bonny peaked in 1958, when 277 babies were given it (269 girls, #608 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,752 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,727 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,425 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,359 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,929 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,880 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,967 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,855 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,600 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #16,889 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,780 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,261 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,629 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,713 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,156 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,825 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,649 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,293 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,359 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,536 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,699 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,346 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,525 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,805 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,118 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,283 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 51 | #1,993 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,910 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,787 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 81 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,127 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,261 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,065 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,911 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 45 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,716 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 59 | #1,565 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 75 | #1,405 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,247 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 111 | #1,038 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 80 | #1,224 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 86 | #1,142 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 92 | #1,096 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 85 | #1,156 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 109 | #1,032 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 130 | #923 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 155 | #847 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 164 | #821 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 183 | #755 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 225 | #666 | 0.11 |
| 1958 | 269 | #608 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 241 | #627 | 0.12 |
| 1956 | 240 | #616 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 240 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1954 | 152 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 142 | #767 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 147 | #731 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 194 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 108 | #849 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 146 | #700 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 117 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 141 | #715 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 102 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1945 | 82 | #830 | 0.06 |
| 1944 | 116 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 124 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 90 | #804 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 99 | #705 | 0.08 |
| 1940 | 81 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,129 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 36 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 45 | #1,040 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,452 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 38 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 49 | #985 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,507 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,680 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,728 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,934 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,031 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,400 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,846 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,905 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bonny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,469 Americans recorded as Bonny, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Bonny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bonny, and how old are they?
4,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 72% of the 6,469 Americans ever recorded as Bonny. The median Bonny alive today is 67 years old; half are between 55 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 5,523 people named Bonny (5,236 women and girls, 287 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 414 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,570 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 82 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 45 |
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 Bonny born?
The states with the most babies named Bonny are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 462 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 426 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 302 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 252 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 219 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 198 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 188 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 122 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 79 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 77 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Bonny with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 343,225 babies since 1880, Bonny is the second most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 785 babies recorded by SSA was a Bonny (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 Bonny
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 Bonny and names like it
- Compare Bonny and BonnieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sBonny peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bonny since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Bonny: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Bonny.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Bonny alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with BMost given first.