Fonnie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Fonnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 147 babies named Fonnie between 1908 and 1950, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Fonnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1950. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Fonnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 39 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Fonnie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 48 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Fonnie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Fonnie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Fonnie 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 147 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.