Bonnie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bonnie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bonnie: Recorded since 1991, its highest recorded position is #11, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
95times a registrar ranked it
35years from first to last
#11highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for
38names it appears alongside

What stands out in Bonnie's record

England and Wales registered 1,583 births with the name in 2024, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#356
1997	#335
1998	#342
1999	#427
2000	#380
2001	#357
2002	#398
2003	#331
2004	#320
2005	#296
2006	#410
2007	#411
2008	#358
2009	#281
2010	#263
2011	#218
2012	#201
2013	#171
2014	#142
2015	#120
2016	#114
2017	#95
2018	#81
2019	#62
2020	#45
2021	#40
2022	#35
2023	#26
2024	#16

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 30 of the 35 years from 1991 to 2025.

In 2025: #64 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #69 among girls in New South Wales, Australia.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1991–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1991
First recorded at #393 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1991 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #69 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Bonnie appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1991, and has registered 1,271 births with the name.

Bonnie across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Bonnie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#393 (1991)	#33 (2023)	#64 (2025)	30 of 35	1,271 (1991–2025)	135 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#356 (1996)	#16 (2024)	#16 (2024)	29 of 29	12,149 (1996–2024)	1,583 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#344 (1999)	#28 (2024)	#28 (2024)	21 of 26	362 (1999–2024)	53 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#98 (2014)	#46 (2024)	#69 (2025)	11 of 12	1,141 (2014–2025)	137 (2024)
New Zealand · Girls	#100 (2021)	#54 (2023)	#54 (2023)	3 of 3	155 (2021–2023)	64 (2023)

Bonnie by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bonnie in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	17	4 of 10	4
2000s	100	10 of 10	10
2010s	431	10 of 10	43
2020sbusiest	723	6 of 10	121

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 121 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 46, from 81 to 127.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Bonnie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1991 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #11 in Scotland in 2024.

Bonnie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#16	1,583	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#26	1,346	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#35	1,148	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#40	1,121	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#45	1,015	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#62	878	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#81	645	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#95	563	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#114	500	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#120	482	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#142	384	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#171	309	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#201	248	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#218	228	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#263	191	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#281	170	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#358	124	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#411	101	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#410	102	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#296	142	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#320	125	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#331	115	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#398	83	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#357	94	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#380	85	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#427	71	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#342	99	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#335	102	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#356	95	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#69	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#46	137	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	128	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#57	130	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#53	131	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	female	#79	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	90	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	female	#94	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	female	#98	68	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#54	64	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#84	48	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#100	43	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#28	53	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#38	48	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#38	49	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#68	32	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#71	30	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#107	20	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#151	14	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#118	20	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#123	18	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#175	12	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#171	12	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#255	7	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#229	8	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#277	6	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#258	7	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#309	5	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#301	5	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#273	5	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#64	80	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#34	123	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#33	130	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#41	135	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#47	128	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#41	127	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#72	81	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#91	65	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#108	55	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#156	35	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#133	47	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#154	38	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#199	28	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#162	37	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	14	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	16	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#373	11	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#303	13	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	11	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	8	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#362	8	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#400	6	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#465	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#456	4	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#11	188	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1991 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #11, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 11 years, 10 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,583 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 33 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Bonita · #689, 29y
Bonni · #790, 13y
Bonnie-Blu · #2449, 10y
Bonnie-Leigh · #1628, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Paige · #11, 36y
Archie · #9, 30y
Harrison · #13, 34y
Maddison · #13, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aria · #11, 30y
Bethany · #11, 33y
Finlay · #11, 30y
Paige · #11, 36y

Comparisons involving Bonnie

Existing comparison pages where Bonnie and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Bonnie in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Ada vs Bonnie
Ada and Bonnie both rose over the same years in 3 registrars — England and Wales · Girls; Northern Ireland · Girls; Republic of Ireland · Girls. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Ada · Bonnie · 30 shared years, 1996–2025 · Moved together in several countries
Amelia vs Bonnie
Amelia and Bonnie both rose over the same years in 3 registrars — England and Wales · Girls; Northern Ireland · Girls; Republic of Ireland · Girls. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Amelia · Bonnie · 33 shared years, 1991–2025 · Moved together in several countries
Aria vs Bonnie
Aria and Bonnie both rose over the same years in 3 registrars — England and Wales · Girls; Northern Ireland · Girls; Republic of Ireland · Girls. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Aria · Bonnie · 30 shared years, 1996–2025 · Moved together in several countries

Order changes

Pairs where Bonnie and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Hannah vs Bonnie
In Northern Ireland · Girls, Bonnie moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2024 as Hannah fell out of it to #57, having been #36 the year before.
Hannah · Bonnie · 21 shared years, 1999–2024 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2024 Northern Ireland ranking
Bonnie vs Zara
In Northern Ireland · Girls, Bonnie moved into the top 50 at #28 in 2024 as Zara fell out of it to #64, having been #32 the year before.
Bonnie · Zara · 21 shared years, 1999–2024 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2024 Northern Ireland ranking
Bonnie vs Alice
In Northern Ireland · Girls, Bonnie moved into the top 50 at #38 in 2022 as Alice fell out of it to #56, having been #45 the year before.
Bonnie · Alice · 21 shared years, 1999–2024 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2022 Northern Ireland ranking

Bonnie was ranked #11 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bonnie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bonnie without appearing here.

Bonnie moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #380 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #357 and #871.
Suzanne Compare
In 2007 they stood at #373 and #348 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #291 and #750.
Kim Compare
In 2010 they stood at #356 and #356 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2011 that had become #162 and #510.
Christine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #309 and #282 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #123 and #440.

Moved ahead of Bonnie

Lily Compare
In 1999 they stood at #471 and #534 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2000 that had become #465 and #120.
Amelia Compare
In 1994 they stood at #456 and #523 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1995 that had become #516 and #283.
Sofia Compare
In 1999 they stood at #393 and #423 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2000 that had become #465 and #269.
Isla Compare
In 1998 they stood at #342 and #369 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #427 and #286.

Moved the opposite way to Bonnie

Aoife Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 while Aoife went from #4 to #34.
Audrey Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 while Audrey went from #193 to #885.
Eileen Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 while Eileen went from #115 to #443.
Martina Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 while Martina went from #115 to #325.

Moved the same way as Bonnie

Abigail Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 and Abigail from #300 to #115.
Alice Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 and Alice from #99 to #41.
Anna Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 and Anna from #62 to #26.
Caoimhe Compare
Between 1991 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Bonnie went from #393 to #64 and Caoimhe from #66 to #31.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1991 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #11 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Bonnie

Bonnie at a glance

What stands out in Bonnie's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bonnie across 5 official records

Bonnie by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bonnie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Bonnie

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Bonnie

Bonnie and the names beside it

Bonnie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bonnie

Moved the opposite way to Bonnie

Moved the same way as Bonnie

Bonnie at a glance

What stands out in Bonnie's record

Bonnie across 5 official records

Bonnie by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Bonnie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Bonnie

Longest shared records

Order changes

Names published alongside Bonnie

Bonnie and the names beside it

Bonnie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bonnie

Moved the opposite way to Bonnie

Moved the same way as Bonnie