Cabbage Patch Kids

[harplayer]

I had a red haired doll who's name was Vicky. I got her when I was really little and we lost the birth certificate so I'm not sure if that's her real name or what her middle name is...

[niteowl13]

Mine was Elva Mavis, so I called her Ellie Mae
My sister had a bald boy one named Augustin Finley. We thought that was a very odd name back then, but I think it is pretty cool now. We changed his name to Justin.
I read once that people go to the Cabbage Patch and submit names for the Cabbage Patch kids. I'm guessing that ours were named by elderly people.

[iwillpraise]

How about I GOT MY NAME ON NAMEBERRY.COM on shirts or onesies for newborns?

YES! I loooooovvvvve it <3 Please hurry and make that "someday" happen before I get pregnant with my own babyberries!

[iwillpraise]

I had Egberta Maria and Bernard Mike. My sisters had Constance Stacy, Thomas Vincent, and Marcella Jill.

WHAAAT??? Egberta? And my goodness, Bernard Mike? What names! The rest are ok. I'm pretty sure that I'd have switched Marcella Jill to Jill Marcella, but at least to a child the others would be Connie and Tommy.

You don't even know how excited I got when I saw this topic! Thank you for sharing what you found out about Xavier using 1930 name books! I never would have thought to think where all those random names came from!

I had a HUGE collection of CPKs: some were new, some were used (I'm a firm believer that yard sales have got to be the best thing for a kid!), but ALL were loved. And still are! I have every single one of them! My very first doll was not a CPK, her name was Jill. But the two of us were always playing with my homemade Cabbage Patches who I named Cindy and Lacey. Susannah (I lovingly called her Suzie) was a curly red head with a bright green and orange bathing suit; her plastic body could go in water and actually TANNED in the sun!! I remember picking up Cathy and Preemie Joshy (both I named) from yard sales. Cathy was my ultimate favorite~ she was another all plastic one and I took her everywhere, even pierced her ears! She still wears those little pink heart studs Yes, she and Joshy were two of my favorites!

Does anyone else remember the mini collection coming out in about 1996? I was in 5th grade then, and I got as many as possible! $5.00 for a little doll, who was small enough to keep on top of your school desk, was heaven! Hannah was the thick-haired school girl that came with a lunch pail, then there was Dawn who came with a bath tub, rubber ducky and robe! Oh, my, I do believe I have about 20 of them! But the most intriguing name of them all had to be Lavinia. To this day, that name is one of my girly favorites. My husband isn't too keen on it, but I will always keep it tucked away in my heart along with the rest of my Cabbage Patch friends from yesteryear

[mollykat78]

I want this job! Seriously!

[randz]

About six or seven years ago, cabbage patch kids came back and were popular in my area (not sure about anywhere else) and I had three, Alisa, Drew(boy) and Macy. I can't remember the middles, but I was actually pretty content with their names. My friends name was Amanda and Emily.

[greyer]

I only had one, her name was Norma. My parents chose that one specifically because my dad's mother was named Norma, and she died before I was born, so I never got to meet her.

Cute thread! I never knew the CPK's had so many unusual names... or middle names!

[goodhope]

I can't remember their middle names, but I had Doreen, Evelyn, and Cole.

[melissaintlouis]

I think mine was named "Colleen" something-or-other, and thinking it wasn't fancy enough. So, armed with my name books, I renamed her Clytie Jessamyn.

I also recall watching a commercial for CPK and feeling slighted that my doll wasn't named "Amanda Jane" like the one on the commercial, and thus renaming my toy panda bear Amanda Jane.