Cabbage Patch Dolls naming

shall923 · November 2011

I didn't know if this would be seen in the post below so I thought I would share in a new post. Someone ask how they name the dolls and I know the answer. When I was about 10? we went to the place where the dolls are "born." It is set up like a hospital. When mother cabbage goes into labor everyone that is shopping in the hospital gathers around a window. A person dressed like a doctor pulls a doll out of a cabbage head and announces whether it is a boy or girl. The first name shouted out by the crowd of shoppers is the name given to the doll.

This was 20+ years ago so I don't know if it is still done this way but it was then.

AlphabetFish · November 2011

Babyland General in Cleveland, Georgia? That's where their website says they're "born" now.

How funny. That would explain why their names are so on trend.

shall923 · November 2011

AlphabetFish:
Babyland General in Cleveland, Georgia? That's where their website says they're "born" now.
How funny. That would explain why their names are so on trend.

I couldn't remember the city but I knew it was in GA. We were going on vacation to FL. The whole trip down we thought of names to yell out. When the birth happened and they ask for a name neither my sister or I said anything. We were to afraid, lol.

Jade44 · November 2011

That is so much fun! I would have loved to have gone there as a little girl! I had the cabbage patch board game and my sisters and I played it till it just about disintegrated.

goodgollie · November 2011

AlphabetFish:
Babyland General in Cleveland, Georgia? That's where their website says they're "born" now.
How funny. That would explain why their names are so on trend.

My CP dolls' names were definitely not on trend. Mine were Helga and Francis in 1985. It's cool to know how they are "born", though.

morethancottoncandy · November 2011

goodgollie:
My CP dolls' names were definitely not on trend. Mine were Helga and Francis in 1985. It's cool to know how they are "born", though.

I'd have to second this. Constance Libby was definitely not "on trend" in 1985! I loved her to death though!

allimg22 · November 2011

That place is awesome! I'm planning to take my niece in the spring.

HAFranklin · November 2011

My ILs went there when my SIL was a newborn. They yelled out SILs name when they asked, and then bought that doll. SIL is the only person I know to have a CPK with the same first and middle name as them. (Amanda Marie if you're wondering)

benmel31 · November 2011

I had no idea! That would have been so much fun!

Knowing this now, I am not impressed with the people who named my CP dolls! I had Victor, Heidi, and a newborn whose name I cannot remember.

AKB090609 · November 2011

I guess I got lucky, mine was Stephanie Elizabeth!

WashingtonQueen · November 2011

Thats how it might be done for the real dolls. The ones that most people have are from toy stores and they are not the real dolls.

HannahO28 · November 2011

But that's gotta just be the dolls that they sell right there, right? Those dolls don't get shipped out?

That place does sounds like fun. I am just a teeny bit too old to remember the Cabbage Patch doll craze, but I think they're kind of cute. I'd take my daughter to that place, if I ever have one.

WashingtonQueen · November 2011

HannahO28:

But that's gotta just be the dolls that they sell right there, right? Those dolls don't get shipped out?

That place does sounds like fun. I am just a teeny bit too old to remember the Cabbage Patch doll craze, but I think they're kind of cute. I'd take my daughter to that place, if I ever have one.

The ones that they sell there are the real dolls. The ones sold in stores are made by toy companies. They are not the same thing. I do wonder how they come up with the toy doll names.

Casperdy · November 2011

WashingtonQueen:
HannahO28:

But that's gotta just be the dolls that they sell right there, right? Those dolls don't get shipped out?

That place does sounds like fun. I am just a teeny bit too old to remember the Cabbage Patch doll craze, but I think they're kind of cute. I'd take my daughter to that place, if I ever have one.

The ones that they sell there are the real dolls. The ones sold in stores are made by toy companies. They are not the same thing. I do wonder how they come up with the toy doll names.

This sort of explains it-there are three "tiers" of dolls:

https://www.cabbagepatchkids.com/shop/

pensparade · November 2011

morethancottoncandy:
goodgollie:
My CP dolls' names were definitely not on trend. Mine were Helga and Francis in 1985. It's cool to know how they are "born", though.
I'd have to second this. Constance Libby was definitely not "on trend" in 1985! I loved her to death though!

Edna and Margaret in 1990?

DD has an Evelyn and an Yvonne.