Fewer than five US girls were named Bonny in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #595, reached in 1955. The most girls given the name in a single year was 269, in 1958. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #850 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Bonny in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 11 babies. In all, 6,469 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,015 babies named Bonny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33 US girls were named Bonny; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Bonnie (332,712 babies since 1880) and Bunny (1,978 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Boney are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.