Relatively speaking, why does no one know much about/care about the Easter Bunny?

Yeah, way stranger than a fat old man who keeps little people as slaves, squeezing down your chimney

Peter Cottontail just values his own privacy more than Santa does, baw.

I mean if you ask 12-year-old Shoebang if he would rather a Nintendo 64 or a basket of candy that his mom would throw away a week later there wouldn’t be a long internal debate.

Always the Jooooos!

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The Pagan Origins: Eostre and the Spring Goddess
The Easter Bunny's roots trace back to old Germanic folklore and the spring goddess Eostre (also spelled Ostara). Eostre was a mythological figure associated with spring, fertility, and renewal. Both hares and eggs were symbols connected to her because they represented fertility and the return of life after winter.

Springtime feasts were held in Eostre's honor, but by around the 9th century, these traditions had largely faded. As Christianity spread through northern Europe, the Christian celebration of Jesus' resurrection — Easter — gradually absorbed and replaced the earlier spring festivals. The symbols of hares and eggs lingered, eventually becoming associated with the Christian holiday.

The Easter Hare in German Tradition
In early German Christian tradition, the rabbit took on a specific role: the "Osterhase" (Easter Hare) was said to act as a kind of judge for children — evaluating whether they had been good or disobedient throughout the year. Well-behaved children would find their nests (later, baskets) filled with colored eggs, candy, and sometimes small toys.

German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the 1700s are widely credited with bringing this tradition to America. Over the following centuries, the Easter Hare evolved into the Easter Bunny we know today: cheerful, candy-bearing, and decidedly less judgmental.

From Pagan Symbol to Easter Icon
It's a winding road from a Germanic fertility goddess to a basket-toting bunny at your local Easter egg hunt. But that's how traditions often work. They travel through time, picking up new meaning as they go. For Christians, the bunny and eggs have become cultural symbols layered onto a holiday whose core meaning is anything but secular: the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Easter has pagan origins. Passover was the original Christian celebration. Christ being crucified at Passover. The word Easter only appears on the Bible once in Acts and it’s a mistranslation. Should have been translated Passover

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We don’t know where he lives

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Because he's hiding out from Irontail.

Santa Claus is based on legends and tales of real people and places and actually integrates with the elements of the holiday.

The Easter Bunny is basically a monster with no basis in reality and has nothing to do with Jesus or anything like that.

I've also never met anyone who actually pretend the Easter Bunny is a real thing, there's no mythos behind him, it's just something you say.

My gut speculation: Santa has roots in Christian history (Saint Nicholas was an actual guy) so it was more easily integrated into the Christian culture. The Easter bunny is rooted in pagan lore. With Easter being the most important event on the Christian calendar, my guess is it was never embraced as formally as Santa.