Buttons

Buttons is an English word name taken from the small, round fasteners used to close clothing. As a pet name it evokes cuteness, smallness, and the particular charm of round, bright features — especially eyes — that look exactly like shiny buttons.

Buttons is a name born from the moment someone looked at their pet's bright, shiny eyes and thought: those look exactly like buttons. It is an incredibly apt observation and an endlessly charming name. The 'cute as a button' idiom has been expressing maximum adorableness in English for centuries, and Buttons takes that compliment and makes it official. It works beautifully for small, round-faced animals with notably expressive eyes — Cocker Spaniels, Persian cats, rabbits, guinea pigs — any creature whose face is essentially a collection of irresistible round features.