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The Bonny surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 606 people carried this name — #36,838 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 476,200 people counted. That is up 10% from 552 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Bonny surname

Variant of Bonnie or Bonnet.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bonny» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 721 people named Bonny.

26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 64 départements, most often Côtes-d’Armor.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 26
Côtes-d’Armor 113
Loire 98
Paris 47
Haute-Vienne 37
Gironde 31
Haute-Loire 31
Gard 28
Nord 24

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

433 people named Bonny live in Switzerland.

They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Vaud 219
Fribourg 74
Geneva 51
Neuchâtel 38
Valais 17
Zurich 13
Bern 10
Ticino 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 394 people named Bonny live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in West Flanders.

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Where they live today

West Flanders 335
Hainaut 28
East Flanders 16
Brussels-Capital 5
Flemish Brabant 5
Liège 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Bonny,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Anne Bonny
    Anne Bonny 1697– · pirate
  • Pierre Bonny
    Pierre Bonny 1895–1944 · military personnel
  • Yvette Bonny
    Yvette Bonny 1938– · physician
  • Mary Bonny d. 1762
  • William Bonny 1657–1719
  • Adolphe Bonny 1849–1933 · painter

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Bonny.

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