Bunny
Feminine · “English bunny”
Bunny is given to both — 1,829 girls and 149 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
English used to call the animal a coney. The word died in the nineteenth century because it rhymed with something people would not say aloud in company, and rabbit, which had meant only the young of the species, took over the whole meaning. Bunny is what was left for the small ones.
How old is the name Bunny?
Bunny first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Bunny alive today was born around 1952, making them about 73 years old. About 1,300 people named Bunny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Bunny most popular?
Bunny peaked in 1946, reaching #1058 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 8,399 places below that high. See the whole 1946 chart.
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Where it comes from
From bun to Bunny
The story of Bunny
The animal was a coney in English for six hundred years, from Old French conin; a rabbit was specifically the young of a coney until about 1600. Coney was said to rhyme with money, and by the nineteenth century it had collided with an obscene word closely enough that respectable speakers avoided it, Bible editors respelled it, and it fell out of the language, leaving rabbit to cover the whole animal. The same taboo avoidance changed several other English words in the same period, particularly in America: a cock became a rooster, an ass became a donkey, and a bull was sometimes a gentleman cow. Coney survives only in place names, Coney Island among them, which is generally explained as the Dutch for rabbit island and preserves a word English otherwise lost to embarrassment.
Meaning
English bunny, a rabbit
Bunny is from bun, a dialect word for a rabbit or a squirrel's tail, with the diminutive -y. It has been a term of endearment since the seventeenth century, well before it settled as the standard word for a young rabbit. As a given name it is a twentieth-century American formation, often a nickname registered as a legal name. The peak is 1946.
How the name formed
- bun
- bunny
- Bunny
Related forms: Bunni
Pronouncing Bunny
BUN-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. It is said exactly like the animal word, with no name-specific pronunciation.
Nicknames for Bunny
Moderate
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
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 195766 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1058reached in 1946
- Change vs 2011
- +66.7%10 in 2025, from 6
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.
Bunny in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Bunni in English — spelling variant
Bunnys among us
people named Bunny are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Bunny
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Enedina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Bunny's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Enedina climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Enedina's path sketches the road Bunny is walking now.
Bunny sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Bunny beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Bunny in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Everyone can spell it and say it on sight.
- It is warm and immediately friendly.
- Two syllables with the standard -y ending.
- It is an everyday word for an animal.
- It reads as a nickname rather than a formal name.
- The 1946 peak places it firmly in the mid-century.
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Feminine · #9457 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Bunnys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Bunny are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Bunny in 2025?
- Bunny ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Bunny?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Bunny — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Bunny with classmates?
- Bunny will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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