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:Bonnet surname distribution French Guiana (1:406) Occitanie (1:538) Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (1:571) Nouvelle-Aquitaine (1:651) Pays de la Loire (1:796) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (1:811) Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1:921) Centre-Val de Loire (1:940)
People Arnaud Bonnet (born 1977), French politician Beatriz Bonnet (1930–2020), Argentine actress Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet (archeologist) (born 1933), Swiss archaeologist Carlos Bonnet (1892–1983), Venezuelan composer and orchestra conductor 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 Peter Bonnet (1936–2023), British major general Pierre Ossian Bonnet (1819–1892), French mathematician René Bonnet (businessman) (1904–1983), French driver and automobile constructor René Bonnet (footballer) (1880–?), French footballer René Bonnet (1905–1998), better known as , French comic book artist and scriptwriter Rob Bonnet (born 1952), British journalist Roger-Maurice Bonnet (1937–2026), French astrophysicist Stede Bonnet (1688–1718), Barbadian pirate Sylvie Bonnet (born 1969), French politician William Bonnet (born 1982), French road bicycle racer
Fictional characters Stephen Bonnet, a villain in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
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