Bonnie is a Scottish name, that was developed from the word ‘bonnie’ for ‘pretty’. The origins of this word lie in Latin ‘bonus’, which means ‘good’.
Bonnie is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Bonnie isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Bonnie ranks 648. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Bonnie. In the entire USA, approximately 319,890 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Bonnie. That is 0.10 % of all living Americans.
Bonnie is a Scottish name, that was developed from the word ‘bonnie’ for ‘pretty’. The origins of this word lie in Latin ‘bonus’, which means ‘good’.
This first name became... especially popular after the release of the movie 'Gone With the Wind' (1939), in which it was the nickname of Scarlett's daughter.
Bonnie is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Bonnie. This means that several girls named Bonnie have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Bonnie has reached its best rank of #33 multiple times, most recently in 1950. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Bonnie one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Bonnie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Bonnie will be Bonnie. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Bonnie in 2022 – in fact 586 to be precise, confirming Bonnie as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #485 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2007, when only 168 baby girls were named Bonnie.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Bonnie. Because: There are women and girls named Bonnie in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Bonnie is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular female first names, for example in Montana, where Bonnie ranks on place 44. The greatest chance of meeting Bonnie, however, is in Wyoming, where one in 222 girls and women bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 484 women and girls and in Hawaii, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 949 women and girls for their name before you once get Bonnie as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Bonnie is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Bonnie and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Bonnie, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Orange
Nut
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Bonnie
Bonnie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
B
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Bonnie sounds like this:
