Bunnie
Feminine
Bunnie is given to both — 800 girls and 62 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Bunnie is an affectionate word that got onto birth certificates, which happens more often than people think. The animal behind it has one of the stranger vocabulary histories in English: the word everyone used for it was abandoned, deliberately, because of what it sounded like.
How old is the name Bunnie?
Bunnie first appears in US birth records in 1910 — 115 years ago. The typical Bunnie alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 500 people named Bunnie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bunnie most popular?
Bunnie peaked in 1953, reaching #1671 nationally. See the whole 1953 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Bunnie
For most of English history the animal was a coney, said to rhyme with money, and the word rabbit meant only its young. Coney is all over the King James Bible, all over medieval cookbooks, and still on the map in Coney Island. Then, during the nineteenth century, it began to disappear from polite speech, because it had come to sound too much like a coarse word, and rather than say it people reached for rabbit and promoted the young animal's name to cover the whole species. Bible readers quietly shifted the pronunciation to rhyme with bony so they could keep reading the verses aloud. Bunny arrived in the middle of all this, a nursery word built on bun, a Scots term for a small tail. The adult word was retired and the baby word took over, which is the whole story of this name in miniature.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Bunny has served as a pet name for Barbara, Bernice and Roberta among others, and has also been given on its own. Which of those a particular family meant is not recorded, and the name is used here for boys as well as girls.
Pronouncing Bunnie
BUN-ee
Two syllables with the stress in front. The -ie ending is said exactly like -y and changes nothing.
Nicknames for Bunnie
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1910
- Most girls named
- 195335 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1671reached in 1953
- Change vs 1980
- −14.3%6 in 2024, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Bunnies among us
people named Bunnie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Bunnie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is warm and immediately understood, which very few names manage on first hearing.
- Two syllables, six letters, and nobody has ever mispronounced it.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it does not force a reading on anyone.
- It reads as a nickname to most people, so formal settings will keep asking what it is short for.
- The animal association is total and will follow the name everywhere.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Bunnies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Bunnie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bunnie in 2025?
- Bunnie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Bunnie with classmates?
- Bunnie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More B names
The most-given names starting with B, all years combined.
Barbara#968 · Betty#1113 · Brenda#1525 · Beverly#1016 · Brittany#928 · Bonnie#396 · Brianna#222 · Bertha#4546
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