Bonnie
Bonnie is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean or Bonnie Dundee about John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie", or the French bonne. That is in turn derived from the Latin word "bonus". The name can also be used as a pet form of Bonita.
Usage
The name has been in use, primarily in the Anglosphere, since the 1800s. It has been ranked among the 50 most popular names for newborn girls in the United Kingdom since 2020 and had been rising in popularity for British girls since the 1990s. It was among the 1,000 most used names for newborn girls in the United States between 1880 and 2003, reaching the height of popularity between 1928 and 1966, when it was ranked among the 100 most popular names for newborn American girls. It was also ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for newborn American boys between 1884 and 1953. The name then declined in popularity but has again risen in usage for girls in the United States in recent years and has been ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for newborn girls there since 2014. It has also been among the top 100 names for girls in Australia since 2014, in New Zealand since 2021, and in Sweden since 2019. In Canada, the name was among the 100 most popular names for girls between 1940 and 1973, but has since declined in usage.Spelling variants in use include Bonney, Bonni and Bonny. Elaborations of the name such as Bonnibel are also used. Other related names, also containing the word element bon, meaning good or attractive in various languages, include the French Bonne, the Italian Bona and the Spanish Bonita. Some related given names or surnames include Bonaccorso, Bonaparte, Bonaventura, Bonaventure, Boniface, Bonilla, and Bueno.
The increase in usage of the name coincides with its use for characters in movie and television productions. It was the nickname used for Bonnie Blue Butler, the young daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell’s 1935 novel Gone with the Wind and its 1939 film adaptation, because the child's eyes were said to be “as blue as the bonnie blue flag.” The name gained some notoriety via bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow and the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde made about the couple. The name was later used for Bonnie Bennett, a character in the television series The Vampire Diaries, which aired from 2009 to 2017, and for Bonnie Anderson, the toddler who inherits Andy's toys, in the
2010 film Toy Story 3 and the 2019 sequel Toy Story 4.
People named Bonnie
Women
- Bonnie Aarons, American actress
- Bonnie Ammaq, Canadian director and actress
- Bonnie Anderson, American religious leader
- Bonnie Angelo, American journalist and author
- Bonnie Arnold, American film producer
- Bonnie August, American fashion designer
- Bonnie Averbach, American actuary, mathematician, and author
- Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, American academic
- Bonnie Banane, French alternative pop singer
- Bonnie Bannon, American actress, dancer, and model
- Bonnie Bartel, American geneticist and plant biologist
- Bonnie Bartlett, American actress
- Bonnie Bassler, American molecular biologist
- Bipasha Basu, Indian actress, sometimes informally referred to as Bonnie
- Bonnie Baxter, American artist
- Bonnie Beecher, American activist and retired actress
- Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
- Bonnie Berger, American mathematician and computer scientist
- Bonnie Bergin, American canine researcher
- Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
- Bonnie Bianco, American singer and actress
- Bonnie Bird, American modern dancer and dance educator
- Bonnie Bishop, American country-rock singer-songwriter
- Bonnie J. Blackburn, American musicologist
- Bonnie Blair, American Olympic speed skater
- Bonnie Blue, stage name of English pornographic actress and OnlyFans content creator Tia Billinger
- Bonnie Bo, Chinese author and screenwriter
- Bonnie Bonnell, American entertainer
- Bonnie Bowman, Canadian novelist
- Bonnie Bracey, American teacher and technology consultant
- Bonnie Bramlett, American singer and sometime actress
- Bonnie Brawner, American Paralympic volleyball player
- Bonnie Bremser, American Beat writer
- Bonnie Brennan, American auction-house executive
- Bonnie Briggs, Canadian affordable housing advocate and poet
- Bonnie Brinton, American speech language pathologist
- Bonnie Broel, American fashion designer
- Bonnie Brooks, Canadian department store executive
- Bonnie Bruckheimer, American film and television producer
- Bonnie Bryant , American professional golfer
- Bonnie Bryant, American author
- Bonnie Buchanan, academic and author
- Bonnie A. Bulla, American judge
- Bonnie Bullough, American sexologist, nurse, and author
- Bonnie Buratti, American planetary scientist
- Bonnie Burnard, Canadian short story writer and novelist
- Bonnie Burnham, American art historian
- Bonnie Burroughs, American film and television actress
- Bonnie Burstow, Canadian psychotherapist
- Bonnie Burton, American author, journalist, comedian, actress, and show host
- Bonnie Campbell , American attorney and politician
- Bonnie Jo Campbell, American novelist and short story writer
- Bonnie Canino, American boxer and kickboxer
- Bonnie Carroll, American army widow and activist
- Bonnie Cashin, American fashion designer
- Bonnie Castillo, American nurse labor leader
- Bonnie A. Charpentier, American chemist
- Bonnie Chau, American author
- Bonnie Christensen, American author and illustrator
- Bonnie Clutter, American murder victim
- Bonnie Collura, American artist
- Bonnie R. Cohen, American government official
- Bonnie Comley, American theatre producer
- Bonnie Ethel Cone, American educator and founder of University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Bonnie Consolo, American motivational speaker
- Bonnie H. Cordon, American church leader
- Bonnie Costello, American literary scholar
- Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politician, formerly Member of the Canadian Parliament
- Bonnie Curtis, American film producer
- Bonnie Dasse, retired American track and field athlete
- Bonnie Davis, American R&B singer
- Bonnie Dennison, American actress
- Bonnie Devine, Indigenous Canadian artist
- Bonnie Thornton Dill, American feminist academic
- Bonnie Dobson, Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist
- Bonnie Dorr, American computer scientist
- Bonnie Dumanis, American lawyer
- Bonnie Dunbar, retired American astronaut
- Bonnie Duran, American public health researcher
- Bonnie Elliott, Australian cinematographer
- Bonnie Erbé, American journalist and television host
- Bonnie Erickson, American costume designer
- Bonnie Ferri, American electrical engineer and academic administrator
- Bonnie Lynn Fields, American actress and Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club
- Bonnie Fleming, American physicist
- Bonnie Franklin, American actress
- Bonnie Fuller, Canadian media executive
- Bonnie Gadusek, retired American professional tennis player
- Bonnie Gallanter, American music manager
- Bonnie Garcia, American politician
- Bonnie Garland, American murder victim
- Bonnie Garmus, American author
- Boronia Lucy "Bonnie" Giles, Australian journalist and advice columnist
- Bonnie S. Glaser, American foreign policy analyst
- Bonnie Glick, American diplomat
- Bonnie Gold, American mathematician
- Bonnie Gordon , American artist
- Bonnie Gordon, American actress and parody musician
- Bonnie L. Green, American psychiatrist
- Bonnie Greer, American-British playwright, novelist and critic
- Bonnie Gritton, American classical pianist
- Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg, American photographer, author, artist, and certified nurse-midwife
- Bonnie Guitar, American country-pop singer
- Bonnie Hammer, American network and studio executive
- Bonnie Hart, Australian artist, film maker, and intersex human rights activist
- Bonnie Hayes, American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
- Bonnie HeavyRunner, American academic
- Bonnie Henrickson, American women's college basketball coach
- Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health Officer for British Columbia
- Bonnie Hickey, Canadian politician
- Bonnie Honig, American political theorist
- Bonnie Hunt, American comedian, actress, director, producer, writer, host, and voice artist
- Bonnie Huy, American politician
- Bonnie Jenkins, American diplomat
- Bonnie L. Jensen, American missionary and international relations specialist
- Bonnie E. John, American cognitive psychologist
- Bonnie Judd, Canadian animal trainer
- Bonnie S. Klapper, American lawyer
- Bonnie Sherr Klein, American feminist filmmaker, author and disability rights activist
- Bonnie Koloc, American folk music singer-songwriter, actress, and artist
- Bonnie Koppell, American rabbi
- Bonnie Korte, American judoka
- Bonnie Korzeniowski, Canadian politician
- Bonnie-Jill Laflin, American actress, model, television personality and sportscaster
- Bonnie Langford, British actress, dancer and entertainer
- Bonnie Law, Hong Kong actress and singer
- Bonnie Lee, American Chicago blues singer
- Bonnie Leman, American writer, teacher, and historian best known for founding and running Quilter's Newsletter Magazine
- Bonnie Titcomb Lewis, American politician
- Bonnie Litwiller, American mathematics educator
- Bonnie Loo, Singapore-based Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
- Bonnie Lou, American rock and roll and country music singer
- Bonnie Low-Kramen, American author, speaker, teacher, and workplace activist
- Bonnie Lowenthal, American politician
- Bonnie Lyons, American writer and academic
- Bonnie Lysyk, Canadian government official
- Bonnie Lythgoe, former British dancer, theatre producer and director
- Bonnie MacBird, American actress, playwright, screenwriter and producer
- Bonnie MacLean, American artist
- Bonnie Maginn, American actress
- Bonnie Mann, American philosopher
- Bonnie Mark, American television writer and producer
- Bonnie Marranca, American critic and publisher
- Bonnie Mathieson, American scientist
- Bonnie Mbuli, South African actress, businesswoman, and television personality
- Bonnie McCay, American anthropologist
- Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, American businesswoman, philanthropist, and diplomat
- Bonnie McFarlane, Canadian stand-up comedian and writer
- Bonnie McKee, award-winning American singer, songwriter, and actress
- Bonnie McKinnon, Canadian businesswoman and politician
- Bonnie Mealing, Australian freestyle and backstroke swimmer
- Bonnie Milligan, American musical theater performer and television actor
- Bonnie Mitchelson, Canadian politician
- Bonnie Morgan, American actress and contortionist
- Bonnie J. Morris, American women's studies scholar
- Bonnie Nadzam, American writer
- Bonnie Nardi, American academic
- Bonnie Nettles, American religious leader
- Bonnie Newman, American businesswoman
- Bonnie Ntshalintshali, South African ceramicist and sculptor
- Bonnie L. Oscarson, American 14th president of the LDS Church's Young Women organization
- Bonnie Owens, American country music singer
- Bonnie Parker, American gangster
- Bonnie Parnell, American politician
- Bonnie Lineweaver Paul, American lawyer and politician
- Bonnie Perry, American Episcopal Bishop
- Bonnie Piesse, Australian actress and singer
- Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician
- Bonnie Poe, American actress
- Bonnie Pointer, American R&B and disco singer
- Bonnie Burnham Potter, United States Navy admiral
- Bonnie Prudden, American physical fitness pioneer, rock climber and mountaineer
- Bonnie Raitt, American blues singer-songwriter and slide guitar player
- Bonnie Ramsey, American cystic fibrosis researcher
- Bonnie Randolph, American professional golfer
- Bonnie Ray, American statistician and data scientist
- Bonnie Rich, American politician
- Bonnie Richardson, American track and field athlete
- Bonnie Rideout, award-winning Scottish fiddler
- Bonnie Root, American actress and film producer
- Bonnie Ross, American video game developer
- Bonnie Roupé, Swedish-born international businesswoman and social entrepreneur
- Bonnie Rychlak, American artist, curator, and writer
- Bonnie Scott, American actress and singer
- Bonnie Schneider, American television meteorologist and author
- Bonnie Shemie, American-Canadian author and illustrator
- Bonnie Sherr Klein, Canadian feminist filmmaker, author and disability rights activist
- Bonnie Sherk, American artist
- Bonnie Shimko, American author
- Bonnie Siegler, American graphic designer
- Bonnie Simmons, American radio personality
- Bonnie Sloane, American pharmacology researcher
- Bonnie G. Smith, American feminist historian
- Bonnie Somerville, American actress and singer
- Bonnie Steinbock, American philosopher
- Bonnie St. Claire, Dutch singer and actress
- Bonnie St. John, American para-alpine skier
- Bonnie Stoll, American athlete and businesswoman
- Bonnie Story, American choreographer
- Bonnie Strauss, American broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Bonnie Strickland, American psychologist and academic
- Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, American fantasy author
- Bonnie Sveen, Australian actress
- Bonnie Taylor, American missing person
- Bonnie Lynn Tempesta, American baker and businesswoman
- Bonnie C. Templeton, American botanist
- Bonnie Tholl, American softball player and coach
- Bonnie Tiburzi, American aviator
- Bonnie Timmermann, American casting director and producer
- Bonnie Tinker, American activist
- Bonnie Toogood, Australian rules footballer
- Bonnie Myotai Treace, American Zen Buddhist
- Bonnie Tsui, American author and journalist
- Bonnie Turner, American screenwriter and producer
- Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
- Bonnie Ann Wallace, British and American biophysicist and biochemist
- Bonnie Watson Coleman, American politician
- Bonnie Webber, computational linguist
- Bonnie Westlin, American lawyer and politician
- Bonnie Wetzel, American jazz double-bassist
- Bonnie Wittmeier, Canadian Olympic gymnast
- Bonnie Woods, American critic of Scientology
- Bonnie Wright, British actress, fashion model, screenwriter, director and producer
- Bonnie Young, American soccer player
- Bonnie Zacherle, American designer, creator of My Little Pony toy line
- Bonnie Zimmerman, American literary critic and women's studies scholar