Almost every rabbit-name page online is a list somebody wrote. This one starts with the only rabbit data this catalogue has, which is eighteen names, and then says plainly where the rest come from.
The eighteen
Across all eleven registers behind this site, eighteen names appear on an animal recorded as a rabbit: Honey, Teddy, Ivy, Momo, Mochi, Yuki, Biscuit, Muffin, Clover, Aiko, Cupcake, Fern, Marshmallow, Hana, Meadow, Sakura, Cashmere and Cassia.
Eighteen is too few to rank and more than enough to notice a pattern. Almost all of them are one of three things: a plant (Clover, Fern, Meadow, Ivy, Cassia), something soft and sweet (Muffin, Cupcake, Marshmallow, Biscuit, Mochi, Honey), or Japanese (Yuki, Hana, Aiko, Momo, Sakura). Cashmere and Teddy are about texture, which is the same instinct again.
Nothing here proves rabbit owners think differently — eighteen animals cannot prove anything. But it is the shape of the only rabbit-specific evidence there is, and no other naming site publishes it, because collecting it means counting rather than composing.
Where the longer list comes from
The list below is not rabbit data. Every register behind this catalogue is a dog or cat licence, so the honest thing a large rabbit list can be is names that both cats and dogs are recorded with — names not specific to a species. That is what the archive's rabbit filter returns, and it holds 3,722 names averaging 152 registrations each.
Read it as names that work for a small animal rather than names rabbits are called. 882 of them are four letters or fewer and 710 are a single syllable, which matters more for a rabbit than for a dog: you are naming something that will not come when called, so the name gets used at close range, out loud, over and over.
What actually changes for a rabbit
Very little that this data can measure, and one thing it cannot. A rabbit hears well and startles easily, so the hard consonants that help a dog name carry across a field are working against you indoors. 846 names in this list classify soft-sounding and 1,441 easy-to-call; those are the two ends worth looking at first.
What no register records is whether a rabbit ever learned its name. Plenty of owners say theirs did. This site counts registrations, so on that question it has nothing to add and will not pretend otherwise.
What names do rabbits actually have?
In these registers, eighteen: Honey, Teddy, Ivy, Momo, Mochi, Yuki, Biscuit, Muffin, Clover, Aiko, Cupcake, Fern, Marshmallow, Hana, Meadow, Sakura, Cashmere and Cassia. Almost all are plants, soft foods or Japanese names.
Why are there only eighteen?
Because every register behind this catalogue is a dog or cat licence. Rabbits appear only where a shelter happened to record one, so eighteen is the whole of the rabbit-specific evidence here.
Where do the other 3,700 names come from?
They are names both cats and dogs are recorded with, which makes them not specific to either species. It is the honest large list for a third animal; it is not rabbit data, and the page says so.
What makes a good rabbit name?
Short and soft, on the evidence available: 882 of these are four letters or fewer and 846 classify soft-sounding. A rabbit startles easily, so the hard consonants that help a dog name carry outdoors work against you indoors.
Every count on this site is a tally of real registrations: pet licences and shelter intakes published as open data by New York, Seattle, Austin, Montgomery County, Cambridge, Zurich, Basel and three Australian councils. Popularity here is the average share a name holds across those registers, so a name common in a small city is not buried by one common in a large one. Nine of the eleven sources are North American, so read the ordering as naming in those places rather than worldwide. Browse the whole catalogue or read how the data is put together.