Entry № 1577 · Scottish origin

Bonnie Bonnie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BON-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Pretty, beautiful"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Scottish)

A name that means "pretty, beautiful".

Bonnie comes from the Scottish word bonnie, meaning "pretty" or "beautiful" — likely from the French bonne (good).

Bonnie peaked at #66 in the U.S.

Pretty. The Scottish word.

The name in its native script.

Bonnie
Transliteration
Bonnie
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɒn.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bonnie stands.

Bonnie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bonnies before her.

Real people
Bonnie Raitt
American singer-songwriter.
born 1949
Bonnie Tyler
Welsh singer.
born 1951
In fiction
Bonnie Parker
Of Bonnie and Clyde.
1934 history; 1967 film

Names connected to Bonnie.

The number behind Bonnie.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bonnie reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.