How did bunnies get there name?

Answer 1

Also has been argued a Gaelic word bun that meant a stump/root, that could refer to the tail of a hare. It all depends on where you read, who you have talked to or what you've heard.


Bun was from the sixteenth century, an English word used for a squirrel or rabbit.
It's been said that the word may have referred to the small tail of the rabbit, in the same way that hair at the back of the neck was also called a bun, because both were about the shape and size of a small cake. Bunny possibly meant more than one bun, hence bunny.

Answer 2

There was a man called bunny man row, he found a specie and named it after him,

he called it a bunny. And that is that