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Bonna

About 1,080 American babies have been named Bonna since 1914, most of them around 1928. It has not appeared in the national data since 1981. About 440 Bonnas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 75.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Bonna

By the numbers

Total US births
1,080
Estimated living today
440
Median age today
75
Peak year
1928
Best rank
1,163rd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1914

How old the living Bonnas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,080 babies given the name since 1914, about 440 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1950 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Bonna is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Bonna is most concentrated in Ohio (11.3×), Michigan (5.0×), Pennsylvania (3.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1928

The most popular girls’ names the year Bonna peaked:

All the names of 1928

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Bonna against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.