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The BONNY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 552 37835 0 2
United States (1880 census) 330 13277 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +222 -24558 +N/A -5
Other Countries
Australia 115 12562 0.001 7
United Kingdom 202 16354 0 4
Top States for BONNY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 77 25976 0.000 4
Florida 61 28107 0.000 4
Illinois 43 32466 0.000 3
New Jersey 35 30669 0.000 4
Washington 29 25089 0.000 5
Top States for BONNY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 18 11600 0.001 8
Oklahoma 26 13999 0.001 8
Montana 5 24362 0.001 6
Washington 29 25089 0.000 5
Nevada 9 26757 0.000 5

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

Classification and Origin of BONNY

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 BONNY 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 BONNY 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 BONNY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 330 59.78
Black/African American 181 32.79
Mixed Race 18 3.26
White (Hispanic) 12 2.17
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of BONNY in historical publications

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 BONNY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BONNY.

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 BONNY

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