Bonny
A girls’ name of Scottish English origin, meaning beautiful, attractive, or fair.
Babies a year
9
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2788
9 babies
Bonny by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Bonny.
Its American peak was 269 babies in 1958, making it a 1950s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Bonny. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Bonnigood; a spelling variant of Bonnie4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Bunnylittle rabbit; a diminutive nickname4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Bonniebeautiful or attractive882 in England and Wales (2025)
- Bobbybright fame; from Robert544 in England and Wales (2025)
- Bennison of the right hand; a form of Benjamin5 in the US (2017)
- Brany5 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Bonny
Names that are said the same way as Bonny, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Bonigood; a form of Bonus4 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean beauty
Like Bonny, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Laylanight, dark beauty6,283 in the US (2017)
- Bellabeautiful; a diminutive of Isabella4,616 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Annabellegrace and beauty combined form2,601 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Bonny
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