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The BONNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 4,419 6994 0.002 16
United States (1880 census) 1,490 3858 0.003 30
Change since 1880 +2929 -3136 -0.001 -14
Other Countries
Australia 910 1800 0.006 56
United Kingdom 1,447 3887 0.003 31
Top States for BONNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 288 9738 0.001 9
New York 275 7551 0.001 14
Michigan 254 5104 0.003 26
Virginia 246 3669 0.003 35
Maine 205 1294 0.016 161
Top States for BONNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 205 1294 0.016 161
New Mexico 111 1631 0.006 61
Alaska 33 2828 0.005 53
Oregon 161 2904 0.005 47
Idaho 59 3304 0.005 46

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BONNEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BONNEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BONNEY in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BONNEY by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BONNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BONNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BONNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BONNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 474 10.73
White (Hispanic) 218 4.93
Mixed Race 67 1.52
Native American/Alaskan 63 1.43
Asian/Pacific 26 0.59
White (Caucasian) 3,571 80.81

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BONNEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BONNEY in historical publications

(origin: Scot.) Genteel, fine, spruce. French, Bon, Bonne, good, handsome.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


BONNY. BONNEY. " Bonny ; good in any respect; liaving good features, good complexion, good form, good and manly disjositions." Eichardson. Fr. ban, good. Au enviable surname. In the S. of England the name Boniface is thus contracted.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BONNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BONNEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BONNEY

The following words are slight variants of BONNEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.