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How popular is “Bonita” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bonita” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bonita” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Bonita” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Bonita” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Bonita” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Bonita” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bonita” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 100%
1895 8 0.000022791 8 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1899 6 0.000017687 6 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 11 0.000031809 11 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 13 0.000034103 13 100%
1904 21 0.000052047 21 100%
1905 15 0.000035384 15 100%
1906 18 0.000042012 18 100%
1907 20 0.000042975 20 100%
1908 20 0.000040929 20 100%
1909 33 0.000064551 33 100%
1910 39 0.000066022 39 100%
1911 39 0.000060533 39 100%
1912 44 0.000044532 44 100%
1913 59 0.000051886 59 100%
1914 58 0.000040951 58 100%
1915 90 0.000049115 90 100%
1916 115 0.000059449 115 100%
1917 93 0.000046344 93 100%
1918 99 0.000045599 99 100%
1919 99 0.000046914 99 100%
1920 137 0.000060549 137 100%
1921 142 0.000060827 142 100%
1922 128 0.000055916 128 100%
1923 164 0.000071228 164 100%
1924 167 0.000070121 167 100%
1925 208 0.000089144 208 100%
1926 188 0.000081885 188 100%
1927 199 0.0000858 199 100%
1928 196 0.00008669 196 100%
1929 197 0.000089866 197 100%
1930 219 0.000098503 219 100%
1931 206 0.000097891 206 100%
1932 226 0.000107044 226 100%
1933 230 0.000115032 230 100%
1934 242 0.000116525 242 100%
1935 260 0.000124408 260 100%
1936 234 0.000112631 234 100%
1937 266 0.000124843 266 100%
1938 359 0.000162254 359 100%
1939 391 0.00017745 391 100%
1940 516 0.000224086 516 100%
1941 742 0.000304545 742 100%
1942 826 0.000302363 826 100%
1943 1014 0.000359248 1014 100%
1944 979 0.00036393 979 100%
1945 844 0.000318141 844 100%
1946 1213 0.000379619 1213 100%
1947 1448 0.000401963 1448 100%
1948 1315 0.000380881 1315 100%
1949 1508 0.000432739 1508 100%
1950 1528 0.000436153 1528 100%
1951 1522 0.000413167 1522 100%
1952 1456 0.000383359 1456 100%
1953 1354 0.000351356 1354 100%
1954 1199 0.000301203 1199 100%
1955 1244 0.000309832 1238 6 99%
1956 1174 0.000284742 1174 100%
1957 971 0.000231073 971 100%
1958 822 0.000198844 822 100%
1959 812 0.000195287 812 100%
1960 893 0.000214983 893 100%
1961 936 0.000225961 930 6 99%
1962 924 0.000228975 924 100%
1963 831 0.000209944 831 100%
1964 662 0.000170285 662 100%
1965 624 0.000172117 624 100%
1966 528 0.000151914 528 100%
1967 461 0.000135792 461 100%
1968 373 0.000110407 373 100%
1969 361 0.000103875 361 100%
1970 321 0.000089006 321 100%
1971 260 0.00007575 260 100%
1972 224 0.00007127 224 100%
1973 161 0.000053366 161 100%
1974 179 0.000058882 179 100%
1975 126 0.00004173 126 100%
1976 129 0.000042514 129 100%
1977 107 0.000033685 107 100%
1978 102 0.000032137 102 100%
1979 109 0.000032762 109 100%
1980 123 0.000035709 123 100%
1981 124 0.000035845 124 100%
1982 83 0.00002366 83 100%
1983 77 0.000022233 77 100%
1984 76 0.000021784 76 100%
1985 60 0.000016811 60 100%
1986 73 0.000020522 73 100%
1987 104 0.000028844 104 100%
1988 84 0.000022733 84 100%
1989 81 0.000021069 81 100%
1990 74 0.000018722 74 100%
1991 71 0.000018227 71 100%
1992 71 0.000018483 71 100%
1993 52 0.000013792 52 100%
1994 33 0.000008877 33 100%
1995 29 0.000007919 29 100%
1996 32 0.000008774 32 100%
1997 32 0.000008826 32 100%
1998 29 0.000007884 29 100%
1999 27 0.000007309 27 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 27 0.000007213 27 100%
2002 10 0.000002675 10 100%
2003 22 0.000005786 22 100%
2004 17 0.000004449 17 100%
2005 19 0.000004942 19 100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 100%
2007 12 0.000003002 12 100%
2008 19 0.000004834 19 100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 100%
2011 18 0.000004921 18 100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 100%
2013 14 0.00000384 14 100%
2014 17 0.000004587 17 100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 100%
2016 20 0.000005452 20 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 9 0.00000256 9 100%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 100%

Explore other names

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  1. Bonieta
  2. Boniface
  3. Bonifacia
  4. Bonifacio
  5. Bonique
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  7. Bonitta
  8. Bonna
  9. Bonne
  10. Bonnee
  11. Bonnell