How did you come up with your rabbit's names?

When we got Heidi and Sapphy (short for Sapphire), we kept switching names till we found the right one!
Heidi: well, she has really long ears, so it reminded me of the book Heidi.
Sapphire(Sapphy): My sister was reading a book, and she liked the name Sapphy better than Sapphire, so we mainly call her Sapphy.

I named my first bunny "Usagi." He was a solid black Netherland Dwarf with a ton of personality. He loved to watch Animal Planet. Sailor Moon's "ordinary girl name" is Usagi which means "rabbit" in Japanese. He is terribly missed...

Pegasus was named for the Sailor Moon character by that name. The character can change from a winged unicorn to human form at will. He died of cancer in February of this year. I miss him a lot and often long to hold him once more.

Thumper came with her name and I kept it. She is 9 now and very healthy.

Nigel also came with the name. Nigel died when he ate Yellow Jessamine. He is also terribly missed.

I got another Jersey Wooly who looks nearly identical and has a similar personality. He's a purebred with an ear tattoo which gives his original name of Ian. Despite the tattoo, I renamed him Nigel, in memory of my original Nigel.

One of our buns we named Stomper. She was vocal in several ways, but always made a big statement on some things with a loud foot stomp. :happyrabbit:

Well for wiggles i was easy because he was a suprise from a friend and when i first saw him he was wiggling so i called him a wiggly bunny then when he got older we would wiggle around eveyweres so the name kind of stuck ( now he replies to Mr. Wiggles) and for Oreo well she was also a surprise 2 years later from the same friend and her whole body is black but 1 white stipe on her face and it looks sort of like an oreo but she repies to gurly gurl now:carrot

When we got our first two rabbits, one was an agouti lop that reminded me of Cappuccino. So I thought "cappuccino and biscotti!" he became Cappy and our b/w Dutch is called Biscuit.
When we adopted Roxie she had been called Oreo, but we thought she had too much personality and named her Roxie after the character in the play Chicago,

I'm not exactly sure why Perry is Perry. Perry the Playtpus, Perry from Warm Bodies, Perri Edwards, Katy Perry.... not sure, I just liked the sound of it. But now she's gained the nickname, Perry Perry Chicken. Poor rabbit, ahaha.

Sapphire was one of a bonded pair. They both had blue eyes, so Sapphire seemed to fit for the girl (though her eyes are more greyish).

Shadowfax was all white and named after Gandalf's white horse from Lord of the Rings (the 'lord of all horses').

Mocha & Chip : two brownish brothers (I love chocolate!)

Gandalf the Gray : grey french lop named from Lord of the Rings

Felix : black rex named for Felix the Cat (cartoon)

Gabriel : super good bunny named after the angel Gabriel

Sebastian : black & white mix reminded me of piano keys, so Johann Sebastian Bach

Sam : another grey lop, name seemed to fit (he actually was traded back to the rescue since Sapphire hated him)

Savannah : her name at the rescue was Sonoma which I didn't like so tried to find something similar in sound

Ben & Cinder : names the rescue had given and I was fine with those names

Foo Foo : (yeah, I know) this was my first bunny (and yes, I was a married adult already)

My lionhead was named Sylvester when we originally got him from the SPCA, then Cloud for a long while before my mother's elementary school class helped us with naming him Seemore. The logic behind it was that he would often hop up to the headrest of the couch to 'see more'.

My first rabbit as an adult was a flemish giant. We're a family who is into puns...and I thought "it would be fun to play on his name". Sine he was black, I thought of "Jack" or "Magic" but then decided on the perfect name for a huge bunny..."Tiny". We would often show off Tio and Kyo - our nethies that we got at the same time - and then say, "Wanna see Tiny?" and people would expect this even smaller bunny - only to have us bring out this 18 pound black rabbit.

Puck got his name cause he was a holland lop who had a "trickster" personality sorta.

Our first lionheads were brother/sister and she was a light brown so she was "Ginger Spice" and since he was white - he was "Sugar Bear".

We've named rabbits after characters on TV shows (Jeb, Leo, Bruno and CJ after West Wing characters, Crowley, Castiel, Sam and Dean after Supernatural characters, etc) - we've named them after Texas cities (Dallas and Austin)...and then we had our "gods" of Hermes, Mercury, Athena, Sophia.

I hate naming animals - it's hard for me. We got some prairie dogs a few months ago and "Scrit" and "Scrat" were obvious names for the first two boys but when we added another boy a month or so later - that was really hard. We finally realized that he liked responding to names that had an "F" or "PH" sound at the front - so he became "Finley" or "Finnster"...

My boyfriend got me my little bun almost 3 years ago, and at the time I was obsessed with show Dexter. I named my bunny after a serial killer ha. But the name suits him extremely well! :biggrin:

I came up with Juniper rather quickly. I had wanted to name my rabbit after something else I liked. I decided this something else was gin, but did not want to name my rabbit directly after alcohol. So I named him after the source of gin, juniper berries.

So now his name is Juniper. However, I did discover I made a grave mistake. I had accidentally named my rabbit after a recipe called: Juniper Rabbit. Ugh.

Sometimes I refer to him with the full name of Sir Juniper Serpentine due to the snake-like mark on his one side.

People say they love the name.

When I got my bunny, he was a baby, so full of energy. He would burst into speedy runs reallyyy quickly. We then started calling him Starburst. :3

My childhood rabbit's name was Thumper. Go Figure a little girl naming a rabbit Thumper.

My first rabbit in adulthood's name was Munches. She was named on the spot when we got her. Not really sure where it came from, but it definitely fit her as she loved to chew on everything.

Our next girl rabbit was named Pearl due to her colouring. White with ever so slightly grey/pearly ears and nose. We got our boy at the same time. The breeder had named him Happy Feet, but that wasn't right. I wanted a name that "matched" Pearl, so we went through different male names and finally George fit. I loved that they had little old man and little old lady sounding names. Sadly our Pearl died earlier this year so George is a bunny bachelor.

We adopted a foster thinking he would be a companion for George. His foster agency called him Kanga, but that didn't suit him either. We went through a few names and finally came upon Ben Spies (pronounced Speez) after a motocycle racer my husband likes. Sadly Ben Spies and George did not get along. Thankfully friends of ours took Ben Spies out to their farm where he is living a happy life as an outdoor farm bunny. He is really getting along with his barn mate, so it turned out to be a happy ending.

She was born on March 16 so she needed to have an Irish name. Both my husband and I are Irish. Her name is a compromise between the 2 of us. Brian wanted to name her Paddy (for the irish whisky). I wanted to name her O'Hara ( for O'Hara's irish beer). My dad is the one who suggested Paddy O'Hara and we loved it. She will only answer to Paddy O'Hara or Miss O'Hara.

Peppy was named after the rabbit in the game Starfox64. It was the first thing that came to mind when he came to us.

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Jenny-her name at the shelter was Petra, based on the pics I was going to keep it, but once I met her? it didn't fit at all, it sounded so...harsh.. it just didn't suit her.

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It doesn't sound so harsh if you pronounce it with a long e, as I do It is the feminine form of Peter, after all, and we pronounce that with a long e in English.

My newest addition's shelter name didn't fit him either, as it was Slyvester (it looked like someone just didn't know how to spell Sylvester!). I quickly renamed him Sergeant Pepper because he has one ear up in a salute, and looks like someone sprinkled pepper all over his white body. He goes by just Pepper unless he's done something bad ;-)

Pancake got her name because I LOVE delicious scrumptious
pancakes and she is just as sweet.

I came up with the name for my bunny because when I tried to imagine what he would be like in ten years, I really liked the idea of him being and old and fat man named Winston.

When I first got my bun with thought he was a girl, so we named him peaches. When we took him to the vet and found out that in fact, he was a boy, we wanted to make up for the time we thought he was a girl so we had to name him something really masculine, so we chose Brutus.

Since he's a rescue bunny his original name was Thumper.. and ironically I thought this was too common!

So we originally called him Woody Allen Ginsberg, Woody for short! Still this didn't seem quite right...

That was until one day when we were playing with him Dani stared shouting 'YOU'RE DOING IT PETER! (Its from the film Hook, with Robin Williams, the lost boys shout it when he uses happy thoughts to fly? We love films and Its Dani's childhood favourite haha) and really reacted! Snuggling and everything! So we guessed that's his way of telling us his name was Peter. We always say it to him now!

So he's actually named after Peter Pan not Peter Rabbit, but like Peter Rabbit he escaped from a bad situation :biggrin2: He really suits it!

My previous buns were;
Nala, I was 4, The Lion King was the centre of my world!)
Nibbles, for obvious reasons
Lottie and Angel, after the teen novels by Jacqueline Wilson Vikki Angel and the Lottie Protect.

Lynne and Peter xxx
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