Do you remember what you used to call your dolls - and why?

Mine was called Jennifer and she's nearly as old as me - 74. I still have her and she wears an outfit made by my grandmother. My GM also gave me one of those dolls made out of kid and with porcelain head, filled with cork and real hair. She came with a bed dressed in pink and white voile. She was given to my GM when she was a child and was in perfect condition when she was given to me. I played with her and she gradually got messed up. The only thing I have left is the bed frame, which folds up. Such a shame.

This was my favourite doll, Coralie Patricia. Mum came up with that name and I got her when I was 5 years old for Christmas (I'm now 66). I cut her long blonde hair off and had to get her a wig.

Valerie was my first doll. She was made of pottery - I had asked Father Christmas for a small doll with lots of clothes, so I was a horrified and disappointed 4 yr old when I was given this large baby doll with one set of clothes!! About 3 years later i was given Rosebud who was plastic? Made by Rosebud so I was very inventive with the name. Also by that time I had probably lost interest in dolls. I had one teddy, but I felt sorry for a little girl who did not have a teddy so I gave mine to her - Too late, I realised I, then did not have a teddy!!

My favourite doll was called Wendy .Moria Angela after the little girl in Peter Pan
See had really long hair .and a blue dress , with a white apron over it .loved that doll .
I saw her in toy shop window , and wrote to Santa , luckily he brought me one

Ps. Christine is in pieces in a drawer in my dressing table, waiting for the day when she can be restrung??
Here she is.

My first two dolls were Christine and Susum. My mother tried to correct me and call her Susan but apparently I was insistent, so Susum she remained.
I had a teddy and a monkey they were never given names.

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My favourite was Petronella and the one I didn’t like much was Betty. Where I got Petronella from I have no clue.

I was telling DGD about an American girl at my school and couldn't remember her name - it was Petronella!

Thanks nanna8 ?

My mother always named my dolls.
I dont remember playing much with them though.

I had a ‘baby doll’ called Rosemary (actually I think that was on the box she came in - no imagination me ?)
A big doll with hair which I cut off not understanding it wouldn’t grow again) was Belinda. Susie was a tiny doll ‘of colour’. I loved her. Definitely my favourite. Then there were Teddy Trousers, Teddy Brown, Teddy Growler and Rough, a dog with rough not soft fur. All gone except Growler, Trousers and Rough.

I wasn’t really into dolls. The only one I remember was a black one called Topsy - ? fodder nowadays. This would have been in the 50s.
I was born too soon for the likes of Sindy but suspect I wouldn’t have been mad about those, either. I was more keen on things like stick insects. ?

I had one doll - named Suzie. No longer have her as when I reached the age of 10 my mother gave her to the little girl next door as she said she thought I was too old for dolls. Don't think I ever forgave her for that

My favourite was Petronella and the one I didn’t like much was Betty. Where I got Petronella from I have no clue.

I only had one doll as I was born just before the end of the war. I still have Dolly Mary as she was always called. A pot rosebud doll. I had a much loved teddy and golly called Teddy and Goggy. Also a scottie dog called Scottie. I still have them except Teddy who wore out.

Deborah was my biggest one, then I had Pamela and Tina and Tiny Tears who was always just called that I don't remember the rest.

I have just realised that I didn’t have a teddy bear until I was about 9 when I had a huge one I called Tabitha. I now have a great niece called Tabitha!
My Grandad bought me a doll with a sparkly strapless blue dress, high heeled shoes and a very grown up figure! She was Miranda.

My doll is called Gennie, I was given her for Christmas when I was 13 days old. She is upstairs on her little rattan chair in her new dress, cardie and hand knitted socks.
I don’t know where the name came from, I think I tried to change it over the years but she IS Gennie.
She’s not been banished upstairs, she’s in my “craft room” where I spend most days, definitely not hiding from semi-retired husband. He finds her a bit disconcerting when she is sitting in the living room. I’m my defence the chair was bought for grandchildren, it just suits her and she’s keeping it warm

I still have the doll I've had for over 60 years. Her name is Mary, which is my middle name. She wears a red dress and a tweed coat, both made by my late mother. When DGD, aged 4, is here she loves to undress her and give her a bath.

I had very few dolls. I preferred soft toy animals. The only doll name I remember was Karen. She was a very pretty doll with red hair. She was called Karen after the character in The Red Shoes danced by Moira Shearer who had red hair. The dancer she played in the film The Red Shoes was Victoria Page, but the character in The Red Shoes ballet she danced was Karen.

I still have my favourite doll Carol. I’m 67 so she must be around 62. My mum used to have a couple of cotton dresses made for me by a local dressmaker at the start of summer. Carol had a matching dress made at the same time from the left over material. Here she is in her original polka dot from over 60 years ago.

Ps I don't know why I picked those names, probably I thought they were far more exotic than mine

I had two baby dolls, one black, one white, my Mum knitted clothes for them - Belinda and Melissa I think.

Then there was a walkie talkie doll called Caroline. She arrived one Christmas morning.
In those days you could order dolls' wigs, there were adverts in the newspaper and I remember ordering her a wig!

My first doll was called Judy. I think it was after a dog we used to meet on the walk home from infant school. I also had dolls called Kathleen. Anne, Jane and Kimmy. I think Kimmy's name was written on the box she came in. I got her from an aunt in Canada. It's not a name that was around when I was a child.

All this talk of dolls made me go away and look up Tressy - and here she is in her green shopping suit with her platinum hair and blue eyes ? I'd totally forgotten about the little pink key for rewinding her hair, which was the only reason I played with her anyway.

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I was never into dolls - too much of a tomboy.

My Granny, who was bed ridden, used to make them and give them to the church to sell. I have a beautiful black doll that she made and gave to me when we visited one summer. I called her Chloe. I thought that was a suitably exotic name for her!

I can remember getting Sylvia. She had a little wardrobe for her clothes and a little bed.