The names of the dwarfs are:
- Sneezy
- Sleepy
- Dopey
- Doc
- Happy
- Bashful
- Grumpy
In the original story, they did not have names. On October 31st 1912 the story opened as a Broadway play. It was in this play that they first received names. Those names were:
- Blick
- Flick
- Glick
- Snick
- Plick
- Whick
- Quee
Disney changed the names for their first animated film in 1937. There is a formual to help remember the seven dwarfs... 2 S's, 2 D's, & 3 emotions Sleepy Sneezy Doc Dopey Happy Bashful Grumpy.
- Dopey: the youngest, sweetest, and silliest of the seven, and the only one to be completely bald and beardless; wears a too large lime green tunic and purple cap.
- Grumpy: the grouchiest and most curmudgeonly of the group, though even he is supremely devoted to the beautiful Snow White; wears a red tunic, long white hair and beard.
- Doc: the only one of the dwarfs to wear glasses (so presumably the most intellectual); wears an orange-brown tunic, long white hair and beard.
- Happy: the most rotund of the dwarfs; wears a brownish two-tone tunic, yellow cap, long white hair and beard.
- Bashful: evokes his bashful nature through a classic pose of shyness (hands clasped behind back, shoulders slightly raised, eyes upturned); sometimes difficult to distinguish between Sneezy and Sleepy; depicted in purple tunic and magenta cap (on video), as well as long white hair and beard.
- Sneezy: frequently shown with one finger underneath his nose, as if trying to stifle a sneeze; sometimes difficult to distinguish between Sleepy and Bashful; wears a yellow-brown tunic, long white hair and beard.
- Sleepy: perhaps the most difficult to differentiate between Sleepy and Bashful, though he wears a perpetually sleepy looking, heavily lidded expression on his face; wears a brownish tunic, green cap, long white hair and beard.