They were first given names in a Broadway play produced in 1912 and renamed in the 1937 animated film introduced by Walt Disney.

Names 7 dwarfs. The Dwarves original names are not the ones you may think they are. The dwarfs who appear in the story were first given individual names in the 1912 Broadway show. Heres a list of all the other names that were considered.

Longbeards Durin Broad beans Firebirds Iron fists Stiffbeards Blacklocks Stonefoots. They are Bashful Doc Dopey Grumpy Happy Sleepy and Sneezy. However they got rejected.

As you may or may not remember the eventual dwarves were called Bashful Dopey Grumpy Happy Sleepy and Sneezy plus Doc who was. These names include Jumpy Baldy Hickey Sniffy Stuffy Shorty and Burpy. Lets take a look.

From left to right in the picture above the Seven Dwarves are Dopey Sneezy Bashful Doc Happy Grumpy and Sleepy. We do know the names of the line of Dwarves each of the 7 founded these are. In the 1930s as they began work on the big-screen adaptation of Snow White by the Brothers Grimm the writing team at Disney compiled the following list of potential names for the seven dwarfs characters who in the original story were unnamed.

Hilariously their original names were meant to be Burpy Deafy Jumpy Lazy Puffy Stuffy and Wheezy. Its All In the Name. As we now know Bashful Dopey Grumpy Happy Sleepy and Sneezy were picked.

Originally the story was meant to focus on the seven dwarfs and their dealings with Snow White. The seven dwarfs in the classic Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are Bashful Doc Dopey Happy Sleepy Sneezy and Grumpy. The names of the seven dwarfs changed over time but the most popular are Bashful Doc Dopey Happy Sleepy Sneezy and Grumpy from the Walt Disney film.