nn dolly, what full name

[ChynaDoll2006]

Loving nn dolly right now. what could it be short for? don't like dorothy or dolores. any suggestions?

Dorothea? Dodie, Dolors? Dorean, Dorian, Dora

I know a Dollina...

Why not just call her Dolly?

I love Dolores

Why not just Dolly?

Dont like just dolly. twee

Donalda, Donaldina, Dolina, Donella, ,
Have an Auntie Dolly..
Love the name...

My nickname is dolly, but my name is catherine.long story! I think for a nick name it really doesn't matter what the forename is as you can have an unrelated nick name as I do!

Olivia! I know one called olly dolly! She is beautiful

I think Dolly would usually be nn for Dorothy

Dorothea or Theodora

MY DP wants Theodora nn Dolly if we ever have a girl

Isadora?

Is it not one of those where it's an accepted nn for something totally unrelated? Like Daisy being a nn for Margaret? (something I didn't know, btw, before naming DD Daisy, and being told by MIL that this is the case - MIL,dammit, is called Margaret)

Delia. Dollies are slang for boobs. I really think Dolly is a terrible name for a woman. Ok for a toddler. But a 'doll' ? is that a name for an adult?

Polly is lovely though.

my dh calls his neice dolly and she is Gwendolyn(her mum calls her Gwendo!)

Daisy is a nn for Margaret because of marguerites. I think.

Marguerite is French for daisy, and I think margarita is Latin for pearl. I guess the yellow centre of the daisy is the pearl sitting in the oyster....

WRT Maggie00's Polly, what about Paulina?

How about Dorabella as the full name? Twas the name of a victorian lady who inspired one of Elgar's 'Enigma Variations', I believe.

My Nan was Doris nn Dolly or Doll. She was a formidable woman - very, very inappropriate nickname in her case

How many babies are you having Chyna? you are asking about different names every five minutes

Why not just name her something completely different and call her Dolly as a pet name? I call DD1 Sweet Pea and DD2 Cute Patoot but I wouldn't have put those names on their birth certificates.

I just don't she'll ever get taken seriously, not even as a 3 year old, with the name Dolly. Sorry.

Kat, I'm ttc at the moment, so (probably) only one just now!

Just want to think of all the possibilities!

(and maybe am slightly addicted to mumsnet
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I see. Carry on then......

As I understand it, Dolly is officially a nn for Dorothy/Dorothea. The only Dolly I ever met was very elderly (in her 90s when I was little) and her "real" name was Dorothy.