That news comes from a 2, 017-person survey funded by the online security software maker McAfee, which is pushing a product that helps parents monitor their kids online.
Although global Barbie sales fell by 9% in 2008, battering profits at Mattel, her maker, Barbie topped the 2008 survey by America's National Retail Federation of the most popular girls' toys, relegating even the Nintendo Wii to fifth place.