Bonny Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Not every Bonny is related, but the name itself grew out of Bonney. Name scholars give the meaning as “The good, kind person”. Without the “e” of Bonney, Bonny is a simpler written form of the same name. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

The 2010 census count for Bonny in the United States was 606, good for rank 36,838. It sits within the 50,000 most common last names in the country. 1,595 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Bonny name at birth.

Arms linked to Bonney and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Bonny report, with a museum-style coat of arms.