Bonnie

Scottish

"beautiful, cheerful"

Bonnie Origin and Meaning

The name Bonnie is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "beautiful, cheerful".

Bonnie is an adorable nickname name, heading back up the popularity list after a 50-year nap. A Top 100 girls' name throughout the rest of the English-speaking world, Americans are later to jump on the Bonnie bandwagon but now it's trending here too.

Bonnie is a word the Scots really do use for pretty, thus the root of this name, from the French bonne. Along with Betty and Bea, Bonnie, is one of the vintage girls' names starting with Bthat are back in.

Gone With the Wind gave Bonnie a big push when Scarlett and Rhett used it for their daughter. Her full name was Eugenie Victoria, but the pet name came from the fact that she had "eyes as blue as the bonnie blue flag."

Bonnie's last moment in the limelight came in the late sixties with the film Bonnie and Clyde, about outlaw Bonnie Parker. Now after a long decline, it's finally showing new signs of life, perhaps thanks to the Bonnies in The Vampire Diaries and The Hunger Games, as well as a new miniseries about the 1930s-era bandits.

Bonnie Rank in US Top 1000

# 441 in the US

Bonnie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 176 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Bonnie

• 441 US 2024
• 176 Nameberry 2025
• 516 Future 2028
• 16 England 2024
• 11 scotland 2024
• 34 Ireland 2024
• 49 Australia 2024
• 85 New Zealand 2024
• 57 sweden 2024
• 79 Dogs 2022
• 72 Cats 2021

20 Names Similar to Bonnie

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Bonnie.

• Minnie
• Betty
• Rosemary
• May
• Penny
• Polly
• Maxine
• Wendy
• Pearl
• Nellie
• Bea
• Billie
• Dolly
• Dorothy
• Dottie
• June
• Ramona
• Jean
• Winona
• Nancy

Famous People Named Bonnie

• Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford English actress
• Bonita "Bonnie" Lythgoe English dancer and TV personality
• Bonnie Lynn Bernstein American sportscaster
• Bonnie Kathleen Blair American Olympic speed skater
• Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell) American singer
• Bonnie Joanne Chapman daughter of Dog Chapman and Beth Barmore
• Bonnie Bedelia Culkin American actress
• Bonnie Dobson Canadian folk singer
• Bonnie Gruesen American actress/singer
• Bonnie Guitar (born Bonnie Buckingham) American country music singer
• Bonnie Lynne Hunt American actress
• Bonnie Lee (born Jessie Lee Frealls) American R&B singer
• Bonnie Lou (born Mary Joan Kath) American rock and country singer
• Bonnie Leigh McKee American singer
• Bonnie Owens American country singer
• Bonnie Elizabeth Parker American outlaw
• Bonnie Poe American voice actress
• Bonnie Lynn Raitt American blues singer,songwriter
• Bonnie Rideout American fiddler
• Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins) Welsh singer
• Bonnie Francesca Wright English actress
• Bonnie Zacherle American illustrator and designer
• Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer American R&B singer
• Phillomena Alecia "Bonnie" Mealing Australian Olympic swimmer
• Bonnie (Griffiths) Hoellein American family vlogger
• Bonnie Gilliland daughter of actors Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland
• Bonnie Bella Jordan (b. 2016) daughter of musician and reality TV personality Stevie J ("Love & Hip Hop Atlanta")
• Bonnie Prince Charlie nickname for the male Jacobite pretender to the British throne
• Bonnie Fraser vocalist of Australian pop,punk band Stand Atlantic

The name Bonnie in Pop Culture

• Bonnie Bennett character on "The Vampire Diaries"
• Bonnie character on "The Craft"
• Bonnie Lisbon character on "The Virgin Suicides"
• Bonnie character in Pokemon XY
• Bonnie character in "The Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins
• Bonnie character in "The Walking Dead"
• Bonnie character on "Friends"
• Bonnie character on "Scrubs"
• Bonnie Anderson character in "Toy Story 3"
• Bonnie the Bunny character in "Five Nights at Freddy's"
• Bonnie Brown character in "The Berenstain Bears"
• Bonnie Howard character in "Heartaches"
• Bonnie Malloy character on "Life with Bonnie"
• Bonnie Rockwaller character on "Kim Possible"
• Bonnie Rose character in "Keeping the Faith"
• Bonnie Winterbottom character on "How to Get Away with Murder"
• Bonnie Silver character in "Dragons in Our Midst" series by Bryan Davis
• Bonnie Swanson character on "Family Guy"
• Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler character in "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
• "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond " traditional Scottish song
• Bonnie Wheeler character on TV's "Baby Daddy"
• Bonnie Green one of the two heroines of Joan Aiken's "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"
• Bonnie Brindle character on “Small Wonder”