Bonnie
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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 for girls#396 US
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 for boys
Predominantly used for girls and associated with "Bonnie Scotland", Bonnie was used quietly for boys in the US throughout the first half of the 20th century, peaking in the 1934 when it was given to around 94 boys (compared to 3753 girls, that is), though its usage for boys diminished greatly after it was famously used as a feminine choice in Gone with the Wind (1939).
It most recently featured in the charts in 2023 when 5 boys were given the name, perhaps owing to its similarity to other unisex nickname names like Bernie, Bennie, Billy/ie, and Ronnie.
Pronounced BAH-nee.
As of October 2026, Bonnie ranked #396 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #33 in 1946, Nameberry popularity #169.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #867 | 318 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #865 | 323 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #896 | 312 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #698 | 416 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #691 | 420 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #645 | 450 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #605 | 481 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #512 | 604 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #528 | 591 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #502 | 605 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #441 | 703 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #396 | 785 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Bonnie on lists
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- Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" LangfordGirl
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- Bonita "Bonnie" LythgoeGirl
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American sportscaster
- Bonnie Kathleen BlairGirl
American Olympic speed skater
- Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell)Girl
American singer
- Bonnie Joanne ChapmanGirl
daughter of Dog Chapman and Beth Barmore
- Bonnie Bedelia CulkinGirl
American actress
- Bonnie DobsonGirl
Canadian folk singer
- Bonnie GruesenGirl
American actress/singer
- Bonnie Guitar (born Bonnie Buckingham)Girl
American country music singer
- Bonnie Lynne HuntGirl
American actress
- Bonnie Lee (born Jessie Lee Frealls)Girl
American R&B singer
- Bonnie Lou (born Mary Joan Kath)Girl
American rock and country singer
- Bonnie Leigh McKeeGirl
American singer
- Bonnie OwensGirl
American country singer
- Bonnie Elizabeth ParkerGirl
American outlaw
- Bonnie PoeGirl
American voice actress
- Bonnie Lynn RaittGirl
American blues singer,songwriter
- Bonnie RideoutGirl
American fiddler
- Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins)Girl
Welsh singer
- Bonnie Francesca WrightGirl
English actress
- Bonnie ZacherleGirl
American illustrator and designer
- Patricia Eva "Bonnie" PointerGirl
American R&B singer
- Phillomena Alecia "Bonnie" MealingGirl
Australian Olympic swimmer
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- Bonnie GillilandGirl
daughter of actors Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland
- Bonnie Bella Jordan (b. 2016)Girl
daughter of musician and reality TV personality Stevie J ("Love & Hip Hop Atlanta")
- Bonnie Prince CharlieGirl
nickname for the male Jacobite pretender to the British throne
- Bonnie FraserGirl
vocalist of Australian pop,punk band Stand Atlantic
- Bonnie BlueGirl
English pornographic film actress.
Bonnie in pop culture
- Bonnie BennettGirl
character on "The Vampire Diaries"
- BonnieGirl
character on "The Craft"
- Bonnie LisbonGirl
character on "The Virgin Suicides"
- BonnieGirl
character in Pokemon XY
- BonnieGirl
character in "The Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins
- BonnieGirl
character in "The Walking Dead"
- BonnieGirl
character on "Friends"
- BonnieGirl
character on "Scrubs"
- Bonnie AndersonGirl
character in "Toy Story 3"
- Bonnie the BunnyGirl
character in "Five Nights at Freddy's"
- Bonnie BrownGirl
character in "The Berenstain Bears"
- Bonnie HowardGirl
character in "Heartaches"
- Bonnie MalloyGirl
character on "Life with Bonnie"
- Bonnie RockwallerGirl
character on "Kim Possible"
- Bonnie RoseGirl
character in "Keeping the Faith"
- Bonnie WinterbottomGirl
character on "How to Get Away with Murder"
- Bonnie SilverGirl
character in "Dragons in Our Midst" series by Bryan Davis
- Bonnie SwansonGirl
character on "Family Guy"
- Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" ButlerGirl
character in "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
- "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch LomondGirl
" traditional Scottish song
- Bonnie WheelerGirl
character on TV's "Baby Daddy"
- Bonnie GreenGirl
one of the two heroines of Joan Aiken's "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"
- Bonnie BrindleGirl
character on “Small Wonder”