What were your dolls’ names?

Updated Tue Mar 04 2014

Did you call your Barbie Barbie?

Use the name on the birth certificate that came with your Cabbage Patch doll?

Maybe you had a Samantha or a Felicity doll from the American Girls collection.

Or maybe you renamed your dolls, or had more generic models for which you picked creative new names.

Or perhaps you didn’t play with dolls at all, but named your beanie babies, pet mice, or Playskool people?

What did you name your dolls, or doll equivalents, and why?

About the Author

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.