How did the Kewpie doll get its name?

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Was it QP? what does it stand for? Where is it from?

It was Kewpie. An artist named, Rose O’Neil created the character for a comic strip for The Ladies Home Journal, in 1909, and had it patented. By 1913, it had become a phenomena. It was the first cartoon character to have it’s likeness reproduced or marketed. A “Kewpie” doll was even place in a Time Capsule from the 1939 World’s Fair.Kewpie is another word for Cupid. “Cupid gets you into trouble, and Kewpie gets you out!”

One of the most popular and long lived fad items of all time, the Kewpie doll had its roots in the Ladies’ Home Journal magazine, where an author, Rose O’Neil, wrote children’s poems and used illustrations of characters which would become Kewpies. The year was 1909, and the cartoon drawings would quickly evolve into paper doll versions and then into unglazed ceramic items which would cause them to soar in popularity. Soon an overwhelming demand would call for the production of kewpie inkwells, saltshakers, perfume bottles, earrings, bracelets and pipe tobacco accessories.