Bonnita vs Bonny
American parents have registered 6,469 Bonnys since 1880, against 683 Bonnitas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Bonnita 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
Bonny has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2024. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1946, when Bonnita had 30 and Bonny had 102.
Side by side
| Bonnita | Bonny | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 683 | 6,469 |
| Most in one year | 31 | 277 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 500 | 4,700 |
| Median age today | 69 | 66 |
| Peak year | 1949 | 1958 |
| Best rank | 1,697th girls | 608th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1925 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 683 / 0 | 6,208 / 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 Bonnitas alive today are over 69; half the Bonnys are over 66. That is 3 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: Bonnita and Bonny.