Bonnier
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of bonny: more bonny
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/bɔɲe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bonnier is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
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)comparative form of bonny: more bonny
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Bonnier is read
(measured from records)Bonnier is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French81%
du nom germanique Bonhari, de latin bonus « bon » et germanique hari « armée ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English12%
comparative form of bonny: more bonny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bonnier counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 374 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 249 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 246 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 182 | — |
| US United States | — | 159 | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Bonnier 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.
A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Gaston Eugène Marie Bonnier (1851-1922).
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)- Antoine Bonnier d'Alcob. 1750FRFrench MP and diplomat
- Albert Bonnierb. 1820SESwedish publisher (1820–1900)
- Gaston Bonnierb. 1853FRFrench botanist (1853-1922)
- Karl Otto Bonnierb. 1856SESwedish publisher (1856–1941)
- Louis Bonnierb. 1856FRFrench architect (1856-1946)
- Eva Bonnierb. 1857SESwedish painter (1857-1909)
- Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelleb. 1922DZFrench resistance fighter
- Jo Bonnierb. 1930SESwedish racing driver
- Jeanette Bonnierb. 1934SESwedish journalist
- Céline Bonnierb. 1965CACanadian actress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 481 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 452 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 446 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 441 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 422 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 374 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 314 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 310 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 275 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 269 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 249 | #6,737 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 246 | #3,496 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bonnier mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative form of bonny: more bonny Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bonnier?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔɲe/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Bonnier have the most bearers?
- Bonnier is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Bonnier?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bonnierThe 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, “Bonnier”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.