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Bunnie vs Bunny

American parents have registered 1,978 Bunnys since 1880, against 862 Bunnies. Bunny is still ahead, with 10 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bunnie against Bunny, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bunnie Bunny

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 83 years in which either name was published, Bunny for 75 years and Bunnie for 8 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Bunnie Bunny
Total US births 8621,978
Most in one year 3570
Babies in 2025 under 510
Estimated living today 5101,300
Median age today 6969
Peak year 19531957
Best rank 1,671st girls1,301st girls
Rank in 2025 unranked9,457th
First recorded 19101915
Girls / boys 800 / 621,829 / 149

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Bunnie Bunny
England and Wales 2256

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bunnie and Bunny.