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Bonni vs Bonnita

American parents have registered 1,412 Bonnis since 1880, against 683 Bonnitas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bonni against Bonnita, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bonni Bonnita

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 68 years in which either name was published, Bonni for 56 years and Bonnita for 12 years. The lead changed hands 11 times.

Side by side

  Bonni Bonnita
Total US births 1,412683
Most in one year 5031
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,200500
Median age today 6169
Peak year 19641949
Best rank 1,610th girls1,697th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19401925
Girls / boys 1,412 / 0683 / 0

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 Bonnitas alive today are over 69; half the Bonnis are over 61. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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