Watching DD (3.5 years) play with her dolls I thought she's made some lovely choices in naming them.

They are:

Eliza
Jemima
Poppy

When I was little my dolls were Margaret and Kathy ...... named after my neighbours.

My 2.5yo calls every doll 'baby'

The 5 yo had a doll called Fifi Madeleine and one called Louisa Abigail.

DS2's baby is called Helicopter. He'd like another one so he can call it Aeroplane.

DD's babies are both called Lally. Actually all baby dolls are called Lally.

R

We have some weird names.
YaYa (boy)
KaKa (girl)

Other normal names
Harry
Jessica
Polly
Molly
Olivia

(usually they end up naming dolls after friends little girls who they just adore)

Each Barbie has a name too, but there are 20 of them and I cant think of them right now, but there isa Brittney and a Hannah and a Mylie)

When I was really little all my dolls were called 'Sarah'. Was very hard for my mum when I lost one and continually asked for Sarah!

I was informed yesterday by my 4yo DS that when he gets married, he's going to have a daughter and son named 'Senny' and 'Sunny'...

Chloe.

Most of DDs are variations of Dolly, Baby, Babby etc.



Except for Roaster Toaster.


I have no idea where that came from

DD called one of her 'Build a Bear' bears Charlotte, even though she tells me how much she hates the name. She has another teddy that she called Maurice, she got him from Mercedes when DH was having his car serviced.

She has another doll that came with the name Jolie.

my dd dolls are called poppy and jemima as well
she also has pixie coco chou chou and some more which i cant remember right now - poppy is the favourite

DD got a baby born boy when she was 3 and named him "Clothesline Clothesline."

I quickly renamed him - Jack. She also has an Isabel that she named.

She names her stuffed animals too...

Lamby
Doggy

(pretty obvious what they are... lol).

Charlotte
Violet

Brielle calls all her dolls either 'Brielle' (she is big on herself my dd) or Rosie. Don't know where Rosie comes from.

Dd1's doll when she was 3 was named Nuts I'm assuming because we called her nuts for dragging her doll everywhere

now she has a doll called Natalie - she went through a list of names that came with the doll and chose the one with a Christmas meaning (since she got her for Christmas). She also has had 2 chickens, Diamond and Sparkles.

Ds1has 2 chickens, Fishy and Fishy

DD2 only named one of her chickens and chose Halle. We have a friend with a daughter with the name but she doesnt really know her so it was a shock when she chose it.

Ds1 also has a toy bird named Tweet Tweet

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DD's first doll was named "Baby-that-wees-and-poos". After that she wanted to name all dolls and pets after the original Hi 5 team (Charlie being her favourite). Her naming skills did progress and her special dolls were called Melissa and Charlotte.

DD (2.5) calls her Barbies 'Purple Barbie' and 'Princess Barbie'. Her big doll is called 'Snuggle Baby'...

One of my DD's named her first baby doll "Purple", it was her favourite colour at the time
They also have 2 Lily's, one Sophie and one Zoe. They often call themselves "Catilin" or "sophie" when playing pretend games too.

Nelly

My little guy has:

Bendy (a knitted kangaroo)
Pecky (a toy parrot)
Rocco (a robot he made out of two water bottles, some paper and some rubber bands)

You let your kids name their toys??? I thought that was our job??? I've always had lovely time naming everyone.

DD1s favourite teddy (how do they always latch onto the ugliest in the pile?!) was originally named (by me) Sparkle, to give a bright happy name to a sad looking hand-me-down that she decided to adopt.

After about a year she declared, "his name is now Duke, Mum." From where, we do not know to this day!!!

She has also named a teddy Mali (not long after seeing the elephant) and Catty (what? We say Doggy, Bunny, Puppy, Kitty etc etc, why not Catty?!)

DS named his kangaroo "Gooki" Not sure where that one came from!

ETA; my favourite names that I came up with? Twin puppies named Wolfgang and Ralph

My DD1 has a horse named Darcy who is a girl, but it was a donkey and a boy for a while.
She also has a dog named Catherine who is a boy.

I have no idea where she got them from and how she decided on the genders of each.

My boy is THE most unimaginative when it comes to names for toys. We have: Tigey, Sealy, Whaley, Camely, Poley (polar bear), Ki (kiwi), Turtley, etc!

3 of them are just "Baby"
1 is Crystal (named after one of her friends from daycare last year).
1 is Kennaleigh (also named after a daycare friend)
and the last one is called "no-change-a-baby" (all said as one word lol) ... i have no idea why.

Got a few Friday night giggles from these:










I do agree the puppy names are an outstanding sibset.

My girls (3 and 2) change the name of their dolls each time they play with them. Most of the time they are ALL called Wendy (after their aunt). The exceptions are DD1's stuffed kitten named Doggy and DD2's Eyore that for the longest time was called Toys.

ETA Eliza will often ask me to say goodnight to her and to her doll "baby Eliza"

Thanks Honey Murcott - sometimes these things just come to you

Big Rosie - but I doubt you would want to call a little girl that IRL. But we all love Big Rosie.

My girls name almost everything either Ruby, Lily, Grace or Sophie - after their closest friends. And these names are subject to change on a whim too

But DD1 has two baby dolls with permanent names - a girl, Jessie and a boy, Simon Then there are the two unicorns called Rainbow and Sundancer

These were DS1's names too, until suddenly he had a dog called Nacho. Helicopter was such a novelty from DS2!

R

We have a Lily, Rosie and Elizabeth consistently.

We did at one stage have a Semilly Diamond. I was very concerned

Zac
Cindy

Generally when I ask her to name something she says Gaggy.

DD has a barbie type doll called Lalee.

A big lifelike (boy) doll called Garlick (NFI where that one came from!).

A knitted red cross teddy bear called Bruce.

A red triceratops called Ruby.

A little Cancer Council bear called TiddlyBear.

There are a few others, but my brain is a bit frazzled at the moment.

Baby Charlotte
Baby Rebecca
Baby Charmaine

Named after carers and my besties DD.

Well my DD (3 years old) hasn't really named any of her dolls herself yet, but she drew a 'Moose' today which she called 'Graylee'... Hmmm...

DS has a doll named Emma-Kate-the-little-sook, named after a doll my godbrother had (and named himself) when he was little. We politely refer to her as Emma-Kate in company.

He was also recently given a gorgeous little doll from Fiji from his nanna - which he promptly named Derek after his little friend at CC.

Mine don't have dolls. But they have a Shark* called Snapper, an Orca* callled Porker and an elephant** called Titus (okay, I had a hand in the last one).
Oh, a zhu zhu pet called Mousey.

They haven't really named anything else.


*stuffed toys
**Plastic

I really liked naming the dolls and toys too, but DD who is now 3 has started naming them herself. Betsy Mae was her first effort- no idea where that came from, and her special doll at the moment has been re-christened Rosette or more often now, Rosetti. She also has a doll called Alice who is now just known as broken leg.

hehehe

I was at Mums yesterday. She has been cleaning out the storage space in the roof. She was telling me;

"I found Kanga and roo, but I havent found Calli and Abby or Crystal..."
I was just like "Oh no, you cant find Calli and Abby? I hope they are still there.."

My DH thought it was nuts not only that they were all named but that my mum could remember all their names (they have been up there for 15 years or more) and we talked about them like they were people. silly DH

Not my child, but when my sister was a toddler, she had a Cabbage Patch Kid that she named "Onion Head". Mine was called Claudia.