girls:
327.2k births since 1880
#118 (98th percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1884
#1931 (58th percentile)
overall:
331.2k births since 1880
#226 (97th percentile)
The name Bonnie is the #226 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 331,210 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 97.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 97.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #118 (98.0% percentile) for all time with 327,173 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,931 (57.9% percentile) for all time with 4,037 births since 1884.
Bonnie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1884 for boys).
The name Bonnie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bonnie reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 95.2% percentile (ranked #33) with 5,542 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 6,345 births per million (ranked 94.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bonnie ranks #447 for girls (52.9% percentile) with 345 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bonnie reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 16.9% percentile (ranked #439) with 89 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 161 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Bonnie ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bonnie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Bonnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Bonnie is pronounced as BAH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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