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Bunny, Kitty, Birdie, Fawn.

Fashionable as a name, or a nick? I've never known Bunny used as an official name on a birth certificate!

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In DH's family tree there's a Molly Esme who was born at the start of the 20th century; she had Bunny as a childhood nn and answered to it and to Molly quite happily for her whole long life.

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She had a niece who named her daughter Bianca and nned her Bunny, whether after her great-aunt or for some other reason, I don't know.

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I also know of a boy named Leslie whose childhood nn was also Bunny. He'd have been born in the 1940s, so certainly a presence in the 60s I suppose. I believe he's not exclusively Leslie!

Chastity
Latoya
Ebony
Tamika
Raven
Bambi
Siobhan / Shavonne / Shavon
Kiana / Quiana / Qiana
Chante' / Shanta / Shantae / Shante (I went to school with a Shanta pronounced Shawn-TAY)
Starla
Lindy
Brandy / Brandi
Tawana
Lawana (name of a neighbor I had)
Shasta
Cori / Corey / Cory
Sunny
Tawny
Fawn
Ricki / Rikki
Dusty
Darby

Dolly or Barbie?

When was "Bunny" ever a name???? I know there's "Bonnie" which although a bit dated, I have taken much fond over recently.

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Bunny is more of a cutesy\pet nickname. And if it is a legit name, its not one I can image myself taken seriously

This message was edited 7/22/2015, 4:32 PM

Nope. Not for a real name. A nickname maybe but that's all.

Bunny has that childish pet name aura like Poppy, Birdie, Snickerdoodle, Buttercup, Baby-doll, etc. Additionally, it sounds frail, defenseless, and it doesn't help that rabbits are renowned pro-creators.

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I haven't encountered anyone named Daisy younger than sixty. The name Roxanne appears in old 70s-80s movies, but I've never actually met one. Barbara, Linda, and Loretta were used in my parents generation and before but rarely afterwords.

Was it fashionable as a given name, or a nickname? I don't see any stats for Bunny as a given name on its page, so I'm thinking it's just a nn. I don't know why it was popular. It sounds like a country club socialite, ditzy blonde. Then there's also the Playboy Bunny association.

I know of one Bunny. She is probably mid-sixties or near seventy. Her real name is Loretta, but I don't know how she came by the nn Bunny.