girls:
6.2k births since 1913
#2108 (63rd percentile)
boys:
261 births since 1917
#4325 (6th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1913
#3367 (56th percentile)
The name Bonny is the #3,367 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,462 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 56.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,108 (63.1% percentile) for all time with 6,201 births since 1913. For boys, it ranks #4,325 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 261 births since 1917.
Bonny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for girls and 1917 for boys). Birth data for Bonny is available in 98 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (98 years for girls and 36 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Bonny has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Bonny reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 31.8% percentile (ranked #522) with 130 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 130 births per million (ranked 31.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Bonny ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Bonny reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #522) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1971.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bonny".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Bonny", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Bonnie" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Bonnie..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bonny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.1% confident that Bonny is pronounced as BAH-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BAW-nee, at 8.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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