Bonnie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From English bonnie 'pretty, attractive', of Scottish origin
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɒni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonnie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 764(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 828
- IEIreland≈1 in 926
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #520 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 570 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 764 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From English bonnie 'pretty, attractive', of Scottish origin.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonnie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 828 | — | Bonnie | 45 |
| US United States | #216 | 219,134 | 1 in 1.5K | 218K | Bonnie | 570 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #348 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 938 | — | Bonnie | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | #295 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1.6K | Bonnie | 214 |
| CA Canada | #178 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 995 | 2 | Bonnie | 259 |
| HK Hong Kong | #129 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 764 | — | Bonnie | 73 |
| IE Ireland | #140 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 926 | 81 | Bonnie | 36 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bonnie is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Scottish form of French Bonne; from Latin, meaning « bonne ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, fine, pretty; see Bonita
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In sco, alternative spelling of bonny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bonnie Bedeliab. 1948USAmerican actress (born 1948)
- Bonnie J. Dunbarb. 1949USAmerican engineer and astronaut
- Bonnie Raittb. 1949USAmerican musician (born 1949)
- Bonnie Tylerb. 1951GBWelsh singer (1951–2026)
- Bonnie Arnoldb. 1955USAmerican film producer
- Bonnie Aaronsb. 1959USAmerican actress
- Bonnie Huntb. 1961USAmerican actress and comedian
- Bonnie Blairb. 1964USAmerican speed skater
- Bonnie Wrightb. 1991GBBritish actress and filmmaker
- Millie Bobby Brownb. 2004ESnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 2004)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 218K | #255 |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 1.6K | #16 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 871 | #255 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 785 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 188 | #11 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2019 | 81 | #72 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 31 | #65 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 2 | #1,544 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bonnie mean, and where does it come from?
- From English bonnie 'pretty, attractive', of Scottish origin. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Bonnie?
- In the etymology graph, Bonny is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Bonnie a male or female name?
- Bonnie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Bonnie?
- A machine transcription gives /bɒni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bonnie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Bonnie in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonnie.
- How common is the name Bonnie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219,134 people named Bonnie in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bonnie compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Bonnie is the 129th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bonnie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonnieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bonnie” — the 129th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.