Bonney
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for a handsome and well set-up person
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bonney is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5Kas Bonnie(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.8Kas Bonnie
- DKDenmark1 in 12Kas Bonnie
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bonney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
219,134 named Bonnie, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, as Bonnie
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bonnie in US United States, SE Sweden, SK Slovakia and 1 more.
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 a medieval nickname for a handsome and well set-up person.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bonney 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 219,134as Bonnie | 1 in 1.5K | 218K | Bonnie | 62 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,665as Bonnie | 1 in 3.8K | 2.7K | Bonnie | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 489as Bonnie | 1 in 12K | 485 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 453as Bonny | 1 in 38K | 681 | Bonnie | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 95as Bonnie | 1 in 2.2M | 327 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 40as Bonnie | 1 in 139K | 73 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | #422 | — | — | — | Bonnie | 9 |
219,134 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bonney is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, some person, esp. a large or well-built one, from N dial. bonnie fine, beautiful (still a common Scots word; appar¬ ently a dim. of OF bon good, although the development is not clear). I and 2): Boone (the more common U.S. spelling); Bown(e). (Of 2 only): Bohun. Vars. (of Boontje see Bean
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
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)
- Thomas George Bonneyb. 1833GBEnglish geologist (1833-1923)
- Victor Bonneyb. 1872GBBritish gynaecologist
- Raymond Bonneyb. 1892USAmerican ice hockey player (1892–1964)
- Thérèse Bonneyb. 1894USAmerican photographer and publicist (1894-1978)
- Maude Bonneyb. 1897AUAustralian aviator
- Graham Bonneyb. 1943GBBritish singer
- Barbara Bonneyb. 1956USAmerican classical soprano
- Simon Bonneyb. 1961AUAustralian singer
- Emma Bonneyb. 1976GBEnglish snooker player
- Grace Bonneyb. 1981USauthor, blogger and entrepreneur
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.2K | #7,657 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #34,810 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #27,541 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #64,711 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Bonney mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for a handsome and well set-up person. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Bonney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Bonnie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bonney most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Bonney itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people named Bonnie.
- How common is the name Bonney?
- 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 Bonney compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Bonney is the 422nd most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonneyThe 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, “Bonney” — the 422nd most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.