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Bonna vs Bonny

American parents have registered 6,469 Bonnys since 1880, against 1,080 Bonnas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bonna against Bonny, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bonna Bonny

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 101 years in which either name was published, Bonny for 92 years and Bonna for 9 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Bonna Bonny
Total US births 1,0806,469
Most in one year 43277
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4404,700
Median age today 7566
Peak year 19281958
Best rank 1,163rd girls608th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19141913
Girls / boys 1,080 / 06,208 / 261

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Bonnas alive today are over 75; half the Bonnys are over 66. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bonna and Bonny.