Meaning not yet researched.
Bonita: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 1950.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #181 in 1950; #8,957 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Bonita in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,957 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1950, at #181.
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Bonita: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #181 in 1950 · most girls in one year: 1,528 (1950).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Bonita, making it the 8,957th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,651 places from #7,306 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 15 girls named Bonita in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #181, reached in 1950. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,528. For comparison, it was #7,682 in 2015 and #181 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bonita in 132 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 6 babies. In all, 37,854 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 12,082 babies named Bonita.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 135 US girls were named Bonita; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bonnie (332,712 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bonnita, Boneta and Bonetta are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bonnita (683), Boneta (159), Bonetta (92), Bunita (26), Bonieta (10), Bonnitta (10), Boneita (6), Bonitta (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Bonita in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,957 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,306 | — | — |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,984 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,700 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,699 | — | — |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,681 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,708 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,832 | — | — |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,220 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,682 | — | — |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,042 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,207 | — | — |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,510 | — | — |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,897 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,855 | — | — |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,848 | — | — |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,642 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,574 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,826 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,448 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,595 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,465 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,253 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,214 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,514 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,676 | — | — |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1991 | 71 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1990 | 74 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1988 | 84 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1987 | 104 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1985 | 60 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1984 | 76 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1983 | 77 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1982 | 83 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1981 | 124 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1980 | 123 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1979 | 109 | #1,200 | — | — |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1977 | 107 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1976 | 129 | #988 | — | — |
| 1975 | 126 | #979 | — | — |
| 1974 | 179 | #772 | — | — |
| 1973 | 161 | #815 | — | — |
| 1972 | 224 | #667 | — | — |
| 1971 | 260 | #637 | — | — |
| 1970 | 321 | #566 | — | — |
| 1969 | 361 | #516 | — | — |
| 1968 | 373 | #502 | — | — |
| 1967 | 461 | #438 | — | — |
| 1966 | 528 | #402 | — | — |
| 1965 | 624 | #363 | — | — |
| 1964 | 662 | #368 | — | — |
| 1963 | 831 | #326 | — | — |
| 1962 | 924 | #305 | — | — |
| 1961 | 930 | #303 | 6 | #3,685 |
| 1960 | 893 | #316 | — | — |
| 1959 | 812 | #333 | — | — |
| 1958 | 822 | #327 | — | — |
| 1957 | 971 | #289 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,174 | #242 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,238 | #230 | 6 | #3,541 |
| 1954 | 1,199 | #232 | — | — |
| 1953 | 1,354 | #218 | — | — |
| 1952 | 1,456 | #199 | — | — |
| 1951 | 1,522 | #190 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,528 | #181 | — | — |
| 1949 | 1,508 | #186 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,315 | #203 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,448 | #189 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,213 | #198 | — | — |
| 1945 | 844 | #226 | — | — |
| 1944 | 979 | #204 | — | — |
| 1943 | 1,014 | #206 | — | — |
| 1942 | 826 | #234 | — | — |
| 1941 | 742 | #232 | — | — |
| 1940 | 516 | #275 | — | — |
| 1939 | 391 | #312 | — | — |
| 1938 | 359 | #335 | — | — |
| 1937 | 266 | #398 | — | — |
| 1936 | 234 | #423 | — | — |
| 1935 | 260 | #401 | — | — |
| 1934 | 242 | #422 | — | — |
| 1933 | 230 | #422 | — | — |
| 1932 | 226 | #438 | — | — |
| 1931 | 206 | #447 | — | — |
| 1930 | 219 | #455 | — | — |
| 1929 | 197 | #482 | — | — |
| 1928 | 196 | #493 | — | — |
| 1927 | 199 | #494 | — | — |
| 1926 | 188 | #509 | — | — |
| 1925 | 208 | #485 | — | — |
| 1924 | 167 | #561 | — | — |
| 1923 | 164 | #564 | — | — |
| 1922 | 128 | #647 | — | — |
| 1921 | 142 | #613 | — | — |
| 1920 | 137 | #608 | — | — |
| 1919 | 99 | #705 | — | — |
| 1918 | 99 | #723 | — | — |
| 1917 | 93 | #721 | — | — |
| 1916 | 115 | #632 | — | — |
| 1915 | 90 | #700 | — | — |
| 1914 | 58 | #759 | — | — |
| 1913 | 59 | #674 | — | — |
| 1912 | 44 | #757 | — | — |
| 1911 | 39 | #698 | — | — |
| 1910 | 39 | #681 | — | — |
| 1909 | 33 | #692 | — | — |
| 1908 | 20 | #884 | — | — |
| 1907 | 20 | #843 | — | — |
| 1906 | 18 | #875 | — | — |
| 1905 | 15 | #971 | — | — |
| 1904 | 21 | #782 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #980 | — | — |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,151 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).