Baby girl name Bonnie?

No

I've never been a fan. I find it sickly sweet cutesy, in the same style as Poppy, Tilly, Maisie, Gracie. They're all very twee.

I always think "what if she's not so Bonny?". It's a bit like the trend for using Belle as a given name. It's not for me.

I have to agree though that, sadly for those who do like it, the name is now strongly linked with that vile woman Bonnie Blue. It climbed as high as 16th in the 2024 stats but, with Bonnie Blue becoming a well known name for all the wrong reasons right at the start of this year, I can see it easily dropping 20 or more places in the 2025 stats. Surely nobody wants their daughter associated with her? A bit like how it briefly became quite a thing in the 90s for people to use Jordan for a girl, then it dropped like a stone when Katie Price coined the name 'Jordan' for her Page 3 career. I can see Bonnie bombing in the same way.

Edit - I've just looked it up, and Jordan was hovering around the 70th to 90th position for girls in the late 90s. Then in 2002, it dropped to 215th from 95th the previous year. That's a drop of 120 places in just one year! Guess when Katie Price started really disgracing herself?! It shows the major effect scummy celebrities can have on a name's popularity, despite some claiming it doesn't matter. To many people, it really does matter if a name suddenly becomes associated with something or someone terrible.

You also only have to look at the drop in the usage of the name Madeleine after Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007. People no longer wanted to choose a name so strongly associated with sadness (as beautiful as the name is). Axel was a name really in the rise at the start of this decade. It slipped right down last year, after the atrocities in Southport. Association matters to people.

How about ‘Billie’ instead?

I like it. In a Scottish context, I consider it a traditional first name (not a diminutive) in the same way that I think of Daphne, Elodie, Holly, Ivy, Julie, Leslie, Lily, Lucy, Phoebe, Sylvie and other names with an -ee ending but which traditionally exist in their own right.

I have a Bonnie of my own and she is fabulous 😊

yes we had a Goldie called Bonnie, I've never heard of Bonnie Blue and I wouldn't let it affect a name decision.

Or just the internet in general? It’s not just a MN thing. It’s on C4!

To me it’s too nicknamey.
I wouldn’t use it. The child will have too much to live up to. It’s like calling someone pretty, what if they aren’t and all that.

In Scotland - I know a few Bonnie's! Lovely name, the porn star will be forgotten in 5 minutes.

Agree about the unfortunate Bonnie Blue. I wouldn’t do it personally. She’s been in the headlines a lot and got her own documentary now apparently 🤢 she’s an attention seeking abomination who gets off on the most vile sex stunts, so who knows what she’ll do next. I wouldn’t saddle a daughter with that name at this point in time (a shame as it’s a lovely name!) but I’d be absolutely devastated if that person made the headlines again the same week I announced my beautiful baby girl’s name.

That’s was my number one choice for a girl, then Bonnie blue became a thing and it put me right off😬

Disagree. She’s everywhere. I don’t watch porn.

I wouldn’t use the name.

No normal person will think this at all. If this was your first thought that's a very sad commentary on you.

Bonnie is a perfectly nice name, and doesn’t need a longer name. Use it if you like it, Bonnie Blue will be long forgotten, happily, before any child born now is at school.

I know a 5yo Bonnie who is a delight. I love the name, but I do get what you mean about preferring a longer name and having Bonnie as a nn. I like Bronwyn as others have suggested. Ebony goes nicely too but I don’t like it as much.

In terms of Bonnie Blue, I never make the association, but I was out once and heard a child called Bonnie-Blue surname, which I thought was quite unfortunate. This child was older than the 1000 men drama so obviously the parents just liked the name and didn’t expect it to be synonymous with a porn star.

Sadly it has (hopefully temporarily) been rendered unusable by the porn link. The whole “I haven’t heard of her” thing there was a massive feature in The Times so it’s hard to miss if you anyt consume MSM.

The name is in the news right now for all the wrong reasons. Not sure I’d want to saddle my baby with the name of a record breaking porn “star” tbh.

Bonnie Blue extreme sex worker, not a good idea. People will think your dp named his dd after his favourite pornstar. Yuk!

That was the first name I thought of, even though thats just her 'stage name.'

No sorry I think of blue when I hear Bonnie, there was a minor “celeb” who I noticed called her daughter Bonnie, she must have been about 18 months old I think so just before “miss blue” came on the scene and I just thought I bet she wished she hadn’t used that name now.

I like it! Bonnie blue will be forgotten about before long

Oh just ignore the reference to Bonnie Blue. It’s not going to be an association with a new baby. DD shared a name with a character from a particularly popular erotic book series when she was born. 13 years later, not even a connection has ever been made.

Definitely a no from me- live the name, but Bonnie Blue has ruined it.

You do really need to be Irish for this one, but I know a lovely Bonnie whose real first name is Bláithnaid. It's lovely because its meaning is 'little flower'. Pronounced, as best I can write it, BLAW-nid. It sounds much nicer when you hear it spoken.

If you're not Irish, I really wouldn't. It's OK on a child, but too twee for a grown woman.

Agree, and the suggestion that masses of people are interested in the shenanigans of a very minor blip on the media radar is one I wouldn't take seriously at all.

Plus there are obviously thousands of girls and women with names that later turned out to have their fifteen minutes of fame for various reasons, (and some have many more then fifteen minutes).

Bonnie is a gorgeous name imo.
It stands up well on its own, or it could be a nn for Bernadette, Bridget, Beatrix - any B name, or actually any name at all, as it also means 'lovely', which could be a nn for a lot of girls.

Personally don't like it even without the porn connection, it is rather twee. Connie's ok though. But if you want it as a nickname, Bronwyn is probably the most suitable. Wouldn't think it would work as nn for Beatrice, but that's such a lovely name, maybe just use that and call her 'B'.