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What is Bad Bunny’s real name? The origin behind global megastar’s name
The Puerto Rican superstar’s stage name has a pretty adorable origin story.
As Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX halftime show, millions of Americans will be introduced to the Puerto Rican superstar for perhaps the first time. After it was announced that he would be taking center stage during the “big game,” he said in a statement, “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history.” He added, “Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el halftime show del Super Bowl,” which translates to “Go and tell grandma that we will be the halftime show of the Super Bowl.”Bad Bunny’s real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, but he performs under the stage name “Bad Bunny” due to a childhood photo. “When I was a little boy in school, I had to dress up as a bunny, and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face. And when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‘Bad Bunny,’” he told ET in 2018. “It’s a name I knew would market well. A bunny is something so common that I thought to myself, every time someone sees one, they’ll remember my music.”In 2025, he told Today’s Willie Geist that Bad Bunny “fit perfect” for his stage name, saying, “There’s no bad bunnies, I think—even a bad bunny’s gonna look like a good bunny. It fit perfect on me because I could be bad, I could be good.”
As Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX halftime show, millions of Americans will be introduced to the Puerto Rican superstar for perhaps the first time.
After it was announced that he would be taking center stage during the “big game,” he said in a statement, “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history.”
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He added, “Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el halftime show del Super Bowl,” which translates to “Go and tell grandma that we will be the halftime show of the Super Bowl.”
Bad Bunny’s real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, but he performs under the stage name “Bad Bunny” due to a childhood photo.
“When I was a little boy in school, I had to dress up as a bunny, and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face. And when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‘Bad Bunny,’” he told ET in 2018. “It’s a name I knew would market well. A bunny is something so common that I thought to myself, every time someone sees one, they’ll remember my music.”
In 2025, he told Today’s Willie Geist that Bad Bunny “fit perfect” for his stage name, saying, “There’s no bad bunnies, I think—even a bad bunny’s gonna look like a good bunny. It fit perfect on me because I could be bad, I could be good.”
