Citizens of the Centrality named it for the rabbitlike Lepi who called Coachelle their home. The Flamewind of Oseon often twisted a braid of colorful radiation through the constellation as seen from the asteroids of the Oseon system.
The constellation was originally part of a joke created by The Adventures of Lando Calrissian author L. Neil Smith. In Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon, Smith writes, "Outside, a braid of raspberry red, lemon yellow, and orange orange twisted through the heavens, across a constellation the locals called the Silly Rabbit." This paragraph refers to advertising for Trix breakfast cereal, whose rabbit mascot would seek out the fruit-flavored food featuring those colors before being told, "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids."