While studying history of miniature doll houses he different types of dolls are bound to create an amazement. As the experts have suggested that it is only in recent times the word 'doll' has been started to be used.

A detailed history of miniature doll house makes it evident that for a long stretches of time the words for signifying the doll were "poppets" or "babes" or "babies". We can find several references in reading old books which offers other names. These names are "mannikin", "idol", "image" etc. Some of us can even experience the fact our older generations are familiar with completely different types of words in relation to miniature doll house.

As the time progressed the nomenclatures too underwent an evolution. The characteristic of different names offered to different dolls soon come to a transformation. The change came with the manufacturers of diverse miniature doll houses. The dolls were produced came with the names offered to them by the manufacturer. In most of the cases, generally a particular and unique name was selected for each and every doll by the young owner.