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Because you used the word "farfetched" regarding Dolly as a nickname for Dorothy, I wanted to point out that it has been used as such since the sixteenth century. I know that you may already be aware of that, and you just mean that it doesn't intuitively make sense to you, the way that I've seen people here say that Polly doesn't make sense to them as a nickname for Mary, even though they know that it started out as one. I just thought it was worth mentioning in case there are some who don't know, and thought that Dorothy nn Dolly is something that I came up with.

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What I didn't know until just now is that the word "doll" came from the nickname Doll. Probably. This site says it did, without any modifiers, but Merriam-Webster says it "probably" did:

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doll

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I wonder what dolls were called previously. Maybe poppets?