Bonnie

Scottish
"beautiful, cheerful"

Bonnie Origin and Meaning

The name Bonnie is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "beautiful, cheerful".

Bonnie is an adorable nickname name, heading back up the popularity list after a 50-year nap. A Top 100 girls' name throughout the rest of the English-speaking world, Americans are later to jump on the Bonnie bandwagon but now it's trending here too.

Bonnie is a word the Scots really do use for pretty, thus the root of this name, from the French bonne. Along with Betty and Bea, Bonnie, is one of the vintage girls' names starting with Bthat are back in.

Gone With the Wind gave Bonnie a big push when Scarlett and Rhett used it for their daughter. Her full name was Eugenie Victoria, but the pet name came from the fact that she had "eyes as blue as the bonnie blue flag."

Bonnie's last moment in the limelight came in the late sixties with the film Bonnie and Clyde, about outlaw Bonnie Parker. Now after a long decline, it's finally showing new signs of life, perhaps thanks to the Bonnies in The Vampire Diaries and The Hunger Games, as well as a new miniseries about the 1930s-era bandits.

# 502 in the US

Bonnie Rank in US Top 1000

# 160 on Nameberry

Bonnie Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Bonnie Popularity

Famous People Named Bonnie

  • Bonita Melody Lysette "Bonnie" Langford
    English actress
  • Bonita "Bonnie" Lythgoe
    English dancer and TV personality
  • Bonnie Lynn Bernstein
    American sportscaster
  • Bonnie Kathleen Blair
    American Olympic speed skater
  • Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell)
    American singer
  • Bonnie Joanne Chapman
    daughter of Dog Chapman and Beth Barmore
  • Bonnie Bedelia Culkin
    American actress
  • Bonnie Dobson
    Canadian folk singer
  • Bonnie Gruesen
    American actress/singer
  • Bonnie Guitar (born Bonnie Buckingham)
    American country music singer
  • Bonnie Lynne Hunt
    American actress
  • Bonnie Lee (born Jessie Lee Frealls)
    American R&B singer
  • Bonnie Lou (born Mary Joan Kath)
    American rock and country singer
  • Bonnie Leigh McKee
    American singer
  • Bonnie Owens
    American country singer
  • Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
    American outlaw
  • Bonnie Poe
    American voice actress
  • Bonnie Lynn Raitt
    American blues singer,songwriter
  • Bonnie Rideout
    American fiddler
  • Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins)
    Welsh singer
  • Bonnie Francesca Wright
    English actress
  • Bonnie Zacherle
    American illustrator and designer
  • Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer
    American R&B singer
  • Phillomena Alecia "Bonnie" Mealing
    Australian Olympic swimmer
  • Bonnie (Griffiths) Hoellein
    American family vlogger
  • Bonnie Gilliland
    daughter of actors Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland
  • Bonnie Bella Jordan (b. 2016)
    daughter of musician and reality TV personality Stevie J ("Love & Hip Hop Atlanta")
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie
    nickname for the male Jacobite pretender to the British throne
  • Bonnie Fraser
    vocalist of Australian pop,punk band Stand Atlantic

Bonnie in Pop Culture

  • Bonnie Bennett
    character on "The Vampire Diaries"
  • Bonnie
    character on "The Craft"
  • Bonnie Lisbon
    character on "The Virgin Suicides"
  • Bonnie
    character in Pokemon XY
  • Bonnie
    character in "The Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins
  • Bonnie
    character in "The Walking Dead"
  • Bonnie
    character on "Friends"
  • Bonnie
    character on "Scrubs"
  • Bonnie Anderson
    character in "Toy Story 3"
  • Bonnie the Bunny
    character in "Five Nights at Freddy's"
  • Bonnie Brown
    character in "The Berenstain Bears"
  • Bonnie Howard
    character in "Heartaches"
  • Bonnie Malloy
    character on "Life with Bonnie"
  • Bonnie Rockwaller
    character on "Kim Possible"
  • Bonnie Rose
    character in "Keeping the Faith"
  • Bonnie Winterbottom
    character on "How to Get Away with Murder"
  • Bonnie Silver
    character in "Dragons in Our Midst" series by Bryan Davis
  • Bonnie Swanson
    character on "Family Guy"
  • Eugenie Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler
    character in "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell
  • "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
    " traditional Scottish song
  • Bonnie Wheeler
    character on TV's "Baby Daddy"
  • Bonnie Green
    one of the two heroines of Joan Aiken's "The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"
  • Bonnie Brindle
    character on “Small Wonder”