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How popular is “Bonnie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Bonnie” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Bonnie” 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 “Bonnie” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Bonnie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Bonnie” 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
1880 14 0.000069484 14 100%
1881 25 0.000129743 25 100%
1882 19 0.000085766 19 100%
1883 21 0.000096798 21 100%
1884 39 0.00016019 32 7 64%
1885 60 0.000249114 53 7 77%
1886 40 0.000156669 40 100%
1887 70 0.000282952 59 11 69%
1888 78 0.000260457 70 8 79%
1889 77 0.000266486 68 9 77%
1890 107 0.000355009 98 9 83%
1891 109 0.000380224 100 9 83%
1892 138 0.000412712 126 12 83%
1893 125 0.000384352 120 5 92%
1894 128 0.000377927 119 9 86%
1895 141 0.000401687 129 12 83%
1896 174 0.000486735 163 11 87%
1897 151 0.000435212 142 9 88%
1898 202 0.000529551 187 15 85%
1899 170 0.000501129 159 11 87%
1900 239 0.000530807 220 19 84%
1901 179 0.000517622 179 100%
1902 192 0.000496467 182 10 90%
1903 216 0.000566632 200 16 85%
1904 285 0.000706346 268 17 88%
1905 287 0.000677011 264 23 84%
1906 277 0.000646515 268 9 94%
1907 290 0.000623133 279 11 92%
1908 313 0.000640542 299 14 91%
1909 354 0.000692456 337 17 90%
1910 392 0.000663607 374 18 91%
1911 413 0.000641028 389 24 88%
1912 569 0.000575875 539 30 89%
1913 690 0.000606801 648 42 88%
1914 832 0.000587428 783 49 88%
1915 1002 0.000546816 939 63 87%
1916 1071 0.000553655 992 79 85%
1917 1244 0.000619908 1177 67 89%
1918 1212 0.00055824 1151 61 90%
1919 1410 0.000668169 1343 67 90%
1920 1581 0.00069874 1515 66 92%
1921 1670 0.000715355 1609 61 93%
1922 1893 0.000826942 1824 69 93%
1923 2166 0.000940724 2094 72 93%
1924 2369 0.000994705 2296 73 94%
1925 2603 0.001115586 2532 71 95%
1926 2684 0.001169038 2609 75 94%
1927 2878 0.001240861 2796 82 94%
1928 2994 0.001324229 2923 71 95%
1929 3047 0.001389953 2974 73 95%
1930 3337 0.00150093 3265 72 96%
1931 3621 0.00172069 3552 69 96%
1932 3710 0.001757219 3621 89 95%
1933 3453 0.001726978 3372 81 95%
1934 3847 0.001852355 3753 94 95%
1935 3688 0.001764678 3611 77 96%
1936 3455 0.001662994 3373 82 95%
1937 3671 0.001722932 3595 76 96%
1938 3847 0.001738699 3773 74 96%
1939 3941 0.001788565 3887 54 97%
1940 6023 0.002615642 5957 66 98%
1941 7846 0.003220292 7761 85 98%
1942 8907 0.003260466 8823 84 98%
1943 8962 0.003175133 8870 92 98%
1944 8517 0.003166078 8456 61 99%
1945 7803 0.002941299 7745 58 99%
1946 9571 0.00299533 9510 61 99%
1947 10286 0.002855381 10215 71 99%
1948 9890 0.002864576 9818 72 99%
1949 9795 0.002810798 9731 64 99%
1950 9800 0.002797316 9746 54 99%
1951 9764 0.002650568 9706 58 99%
1952 9444 0.002486569 9382 62 99%
1953 8679 0.002252154 8615 64 99%
1954 8146 0.00204637 8099 47 99%
1955 8677 0.002161103 8637 40 99%
1956 8180 0.001983974 8132 48 99%
1957 7276 0.001731497 7241 35 99%
1958 7039 0.001702749 6995 44 99%
1959 6498 0.001562774 6458 40 99%
1960 6432 0.001548456 6391 41 99%
1961 6058 0.001462472 6032 26 99%
1962 5849 0.001449433 5810 39 99%
1963 5257 0.001328129 5227 30 99%
1964 4715 0.001212829 4687 28 99%
1965 4155 0.001146065 4129 26 99%
1966 3865 0.001112021 3841 24 99%
1967 3391 0.000998852 3371 20 99%
1968 2975 0.000880591 2953 22 99%
1969 2671 0.000768562 2647 24 98%
1970 2763 0.000766114 2747 16 99%
1971 2346 0.000683496 2329 17 99%
1972 1869 0.000594656 1853 16 98%
1973 1702 0.000564158 1686 16 98%
1974 1470 0.000483553 1452 18 98%
1975 1363 0.000451415 1345 18 97%
1976 1214 0.000400092 1204 10 98%
1977 1352 0.000425626 1341 11 98%
1978 1098 0.00034595 1090 8 99%
1979 1638 0.000492335 1627 11 99%
1980 1723 0.000500217 1710 13 98%
1981 1636 0.000472918 1624 12 99%
1982 1384 0.000394531 1368 16 98%
1983 1283 0.000370452 1276 7 99%
1984 1291 0.000370046 1273 18 97%
1985 1187 0.000332576 1177 10 98%
1986 1102 0.000309805 1092 10 98%
1987 995 0.000275959 984 11 98%
1988 838 0.00022679 831 7 98%
1989 774 0.000201329 764 10 97%
1990 704 0.000178116 694 10 97%
1991 584 0.000149926 574 10 97%
1992 554 0.000144223 554 100%
1993 447 0.000118559 442 5 98%
1994 469 0.000126155 464 5 98%
1995 387 0.000105675 387 100%
1996 386 0.000105835 386 100%
1997 347 0.000095704 347 100%
1998 308 0.000083736 308 100%
1999 265 0.000071741 265 100%
2000 235 0.000062171 235 100%
2001 255 0.00006812 255 100%
2002 219 0.000058583 219 100%
2003 248 0.000065223 248 100%
2004 201 0.000052605 201 100%
2005 190 0.000049417 190 100%
2006 186 0.000047015 186 100%
2007 168 0.000042024 168 100%
2008 184 0.000046811 184 100%
2009 173 0.000045286 173 100%
2010 189 0.00005114 189 100%
2011 222 0.000060692 222 100%
2012 225 0.00006152 225 100%
2013 237 0.000065009 237 100%
2014 318 0.000085798 318 100%
2015 323 0.000087276 323 100%
2016 312 0.000085044 312 100%
2017 416 0.000116325 416 100%
2018 420 0.000119457 420 100%
2019 450 0.000129648 450 100%
2020 481 0.000143987 481 100%
2021 604 0.000178279 604 100%
2022 591 0.00017469 591 100%
2023 610 0.000184223 605 5 98%
2024 703 0.000211206 703 100%

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