Bonita
Just 19 Polish women carry it, and the records since 2000 show no girl given it at all. Latin at root, from bonita, "pretty": most Poles will never meet one.
Bonita Pronunciation
Bonita is pronounced bo-NYEE-tah (/bɔˈɲita/).
What Bonita means
Where Bonita comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bonita comes into Polish from Spanish, where the word means "pretty." Its root is the Latin bonus, "good." The sense of beauty was attached later, as Spanish turned a word for goodness into an ordinary adjective. A Spanish speaker still calls a pretty song or a pretty street bonita, with no ceremony at all.
In Polish the name reads as piękna. On a class register in a Polish school, Bonita stands out among the Zuzannas and Julias, plainly foreign, plainly Spanish. The name keeps no Polish diminutive of its own. There is no shortened form waiting on a form at the urząd.
What Bonita offers is short and literal. In Spanish it says pretty. Further back, in Latin, it says good. The Polish piękna holds the sense of pretty, and behind it sits bonus, good.
When Bonita celebrates name day
Bonita appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 12 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Bonita
1 in 1186518 women in Poland is named Bonita. 19 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10189 among female names.
Bonita as a middle name
Bonita is a first name for 19 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3194th, between Boluwatife (6) and Bozhena (6).
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#3192 Bola6
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#3193 Boluwatife6
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#3194 Bonita6
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#3195 Bozhena6
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#3196 Bożanna6