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Bonnie is a Scottish feminine given name. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (handsome, pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That is in turn derived from the Latin word "bonus" (good). 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. The name 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.

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.

Women

Bonnie Aarons (born 1960), American actress

Bonnie Ammaq, Canadian director and actress

Bonnie Anderson (Episcopalian), American religious leader

Bonnie Angelo (1924–2017), American journalist and author

Bonnie Arnold, American film producer

Bonnie August (1947–2003), American fashion designer

Bonnie Averbach (1933–2019), American actuary, mathematician, and author

Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, American academic

Bonnie Banane (born 1987), French alternative pop singer

Bonnie Bannon (1913–1989), American actress, dancer, and model

Bonnie Bartel, American geneticist and plant biologist

Bonnie Bartlett (born 1929), American actress

Bonnie Bassler (born 1962), American molecular biologist

Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, sometimes informally referred to as Bonnie

Bonnie Baxter (born 1946), American artist

Bonnie Beecher (born 1941), American activist and retired actress

Bonnie Bedelia (born 1948), American actress

Bonnie Berger (born c. 1964 or 1965), American mathematician and computer scientist

Bonnie Bergin (born 1945), American canine researcher

Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sportscaster

Bonnie Bianco (born 1963), American singer and actress

Bonnie Bird (1914–1995), American modern dancer and dance educator

Bonnie Bishop, American country-rock singer-songwriter

Bonnie J. Blackburn (born 1939), American musicologist

Bonnie Blair (born 1964), American Olympic speed skater

Bonnie Blue (born 1999), stage name of English pornographic actress and OnlyFans content creator Tia Billinger

Bonnie Bo (born 1982), Chinese author and screenwriter

Bonnie Bonnell (1905–1964), American entertainer

Bonnie Bowman, Canadian novelist

Bonnie Bracey, American teacher and technology consultant

Bonnie Bramlett (born 1944), American singer and sometime actress

Bonnie Brawner (born 1988), American Paralympic volleyball player

Bonnie Bremser (born 1939), American Beat writer

Bonnie Brennan (born c. 1973), American auction-house executive

Bonnie Briggs (c. 1952 or 1953–2017), Canadian affordable housing advocate and poet

Bonnie Brinton, American speech language pathologist

Bonnie Broel, American fashion designer

Bonnie Brooks (born 1953), Canadian department store executive

Bonnie Bruckheimer (born 1944), American film and television producer

Bonnie Bryant (golfer) (born 1943), American professional golfer

Bonnie Bryant (born 1946), American author

Bonnie Buchanan, academic and author

Bonnie A. Bulla, American judge

Bonnie Bullough (1927–1996), American sexologist, nurse, and author

Bonnie Buratti (born 1952), American planetary scientist

Bonnie Burnard (1945–2017), Canadian short story writer and novelist

Bonnie Burnham, American art historian

Bonnie Burroughs, American film and television actress

Bonnie Burstow (1945–2020), Canadian psychotherapist

Bonnie Burton (born 1972), American author, journalist, comedian, actress, and show host

Bonnie Campbell (politician) (born 1948), American attorney and politician

Bonnie Jo Campbell (born 1962), American novelist and short story writer

Bonnie Canino (born 1962), American boxer and kickboxer

Bonnie Carroll, American army widow and activist

Bonnie Cashin (1908–2000), American fashion designer

Bonnie Castillo (born 1960), American nurse labor leader

Bonnie A. Charpentier, American chemist

Bonnie Chau, American author

Bonnie Christensen (1951–2015), American author and illustrator

Bonnie Clutter (1914–1959), American murder victim

Bonnie Collura (born 1970), American artist

Bonnie R. Cohen (born 1942), American government official

Bonnie Comley, American theatre producer

Bonnie Ethel Cone (1907–2003), American educator and founder of University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Bonnie Consolo (1938–2005), American motivational speaker

Bonnie H. Cordon (born 1964), American church leader

Bonnie Costello (born 1950), American literary scholar

Bonnie Crombie (born 1960), Canadian politician, formerly Member of the Canadian Parliament

Bonnie Curtis (born 1966), American film producer

Bonnie Dasse (born 1959), retired American track and field athlete

Bonnie Davis (1920–1976), American R&B singer

Bonnie Dennison, American actress

Bonnie Devine (born 1952), Indigenous Canadian artist

Bonnie Thornton Dill (born 1944), American feminist academic

Bonnie Dobson (born 1940), Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist

Bonnie Dorr, American computer scientist

Bonnie Dumanis, American lawyer

Bonnie Dunbar (born 1949), retired American astronaut

Bonnie Duran, American public health researcher

Bonnie Elliott, Australian cinematographer

Bonnie Erbé (born 1954), American journalist and television host

Bonnie Erickson (born 1941), American costume designer

Bonnie Ferri, American electrical engineer and academic administrator

Bonnie Lynn Fields (1944–2012), American actress and Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club

Bonnie Fleming, American physicist

Bonnie Franklin (1944–2013), American actress

Bonnie Fuller (born 1956), Canadian media executive

Bonnie Gadusek (born 1963), retired American professional tennis player

Bonnie Gallanter, American music manager

Bonnie Garcia (born 1962), American politician

Bonnie Garland (died 1977), American murder victim

Bonnie Garmus (born 1957), American author

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