Bonnet Family History
- Bonnet Name Meaning
- French: from the medieval personal name Bonettus, a diminutive of Latin bonus ‘good’. French: occasionally, a Gascon variant of Bonneau. English and French: metonymic occupational name for a milliner, or a nickname for a wearer of unusual headgear, from Middle English bonet, Old French bon(n)et ‘bonnet’, ‘hat’. This word is found in medieval Latin as abonnis, but is of unknown origin. In Germany the name was borne by Waldensians, of French origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 189,742 Historical Documents with Bonnet on Ancestry
- 124,011 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,953 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,068 Military Records
- 5,546 Immigration Records
- 35,164 Member Trees
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Number of Bonnet families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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