Baby girl name Bonnie?

[Ironpillow]

This is baby number three and our last baby. I really like the name but I am concerned about the formality of it.

Does anybody know of any full names that Bonnie could be a NN for?

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

I wouldn’t use the name.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

How about ‘Billie’ instead?

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.

No

@OSTMusTisNT Bronwyn is a bad spelling of Bronwen. In Welsh, the -wyn ending is masculine.

No, please don’t - the association with that woman & her own set of values / problems is just too strong.

I like it, sweet and makes me think of "Bonnie lass" however I would avoid for about 10 years until the whole OnlyFans thing blows over but that's just me

Bonita

Bonnie is fine as a name in it's own right.

I love the name Bonnie! My son is Y5 and a girl named Connie spoke to him the other week and I said “that’s a really lovely name”.

Just reminded me of a woman I used to work with with daughter called Bonnie who must be 30 now.

I wouldn’t even think about porn or social media crap. I don’t even know who she is!

Not now. She’s ruined the name.

Know a few Bonnie’s of varying ages, but this is in Scotland. Haven’t read the full thread so not sure where you are OP. I like it ❤️

I knew a cat named Bonnie 🐈

I had a manger called Bonnie no one took her seriously because of her name and it really doesnt suit her as an adult she admits that herself

I know a lovely Bonnie (full name Bonita). However, if you've been put off, 'Blythe' is in a similar vein and also lovely. I was just reading the 'Monday's child is fair of face' rhyme today and 'The child that's born on the sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.' My DD said "I thought Bonny and Blythe were names, " so I had to explain where they come from.

Bonnie Blue.

No.

Bonnie means pretty or attractive so I’d steer clear just in case she (as an adult) isn’t or doesn’t want to be pretty, it would be a bit like someone who’s dour and miserable being called Joy.

My Gran always said Bonnie to mean plump so that always put me off.