Bonnet (surname) explained

Bonnet is a French surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 83.0% of all known bearers of the surname Bonnet were residents of France (frequency 1:975), 3.4% of the United States (1:129,853), 2.0% of Haiti (1:6,444), 1.5% of Germany (1:63,573), 1.5% of Belgium (1:9,227), 1.2% of Argentina (1:41,660) and 1.0% of the Dominican Republic (1:12,540).

In France, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:975) in the following regions:^[1]

• 1. French Guiana (1:406)
• 2. Occitanie (1:538)
• 3. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:571)
• 4. Nouvelle-Aquitaine (1:651)
• 5. Pays de la Loire (1:796)
• 6. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1:811)
• 7. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:921)
• 8. Centre-Val de Loire (1:940)

People

• Beatriz Bonnet (1930–2020), Argentine actress
• Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), Swiss naturalist
• Françoise Bonnet (born 1957), French long-distance runner
• Georges Bonnet (1889–1973), French politician
• Graham Bonnet (born 1947), British singer
• Guy Bonnet (1945-2024), French author, composer, and singer
• Henri Bonnet (1888-1978), French politician and diplomat
• Joseph Bonnet (1884–1944), French organist and composer
• Leslie Bonnet (1902–1985), British RAF officer, duck breeder and writer
• Louis Bonnet (1815–1892), French doctor and politician
• Luis Alberto Bonnet (born 1971), Argentine retired footballer
• Marie-Jo Bonnet (born 1945), French writer and historian
• Pierre Ossian Bonnet (1819–1892), French mathematician
• René Bonnet (1904–1983), French driver and automobile constructor
• Rob Bonnet (born 1952), British journalist
• Stede Bonnet (1688–1718), Barbadian pirate
• William Bonnet (born 1982), French professional road bicycle racer

Fictional characters

• Stephen Bonnet, a villain in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series

Notes and References

1. http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/bonnet#surnames Bonnet surname distribution