Our friend The Venerable Bede (author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English, circa 731) tells us that the English name "Easter" came from an ancient Anglo-Saxon goddess named Eostre.
Eostre's representative animal or totem was a rabbit.
So there's at least SOME connection!
Hmmmm... I had thought that the word “Easter” derived from the Babylonian “Ishtar”. Both seem related to some ancient rite of spring; rabbits and eggs both symbolizing fertility and new life.
Anyway, JESUS is LORD and HE is RISEN!
:^)