Bonnie
Top 1000
About Bonnie
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.
Pronounced BAH-nee.
As of October 2026, Bonnie ranked #396 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #33 in 1946, Nameberry popularity #169.
Editor: Pamela Redmond
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #867 | 318 | 178 |
| 2015 | #865 | 323 | 180.9 |
| 2016 | #896 | 312 | 176.1 |
| 2017 | #698 | 416 | 241 |
| 2018 | #691 | 420 | 246.9 |
| 2019 | #645 | 450 | 268.1 |
| 2020 | #605 | 481 | 297.5 |
| 2021 | #512 | 604 | 368.1 |
| 2022 | #528 | 591 | 360.3 |
| 2023 | #502 | 605 | 377 |
| 2024 | #441 | 703 | 433.9 |
| 2025 | #396 | 785 | 488.4 |
World rankings
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Bonnie on lists
Famous Bonnies
- 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
- Bonnie Blue
English pornographic film actress.
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”