Vonnie

Where Vonnie comes from

The dictionaries list Vonnie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Veronica — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #1,036 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1935
    Peak, #823
    69 babies named Vonnie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    Vonnie Pietsch born
    US politician
  4. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,171.
  5. 1975
    Vonnie Holliday born
    American football player
  6. 1991
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Veronica.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Yvonne.
Namesakes
  • Vonnie Holliday · American football player, born 1975
  • Vonnie Pietsch · US politician, born 1936

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.