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Just to drive home the point, the plural article 'los' should be added in front of the examples given in the previous post when the toys are the subject of the sentence.
Los juguetes de la niña ...
The term "proper name" is another way to say "proper noun." Proper nouns often have an article in front of them.
Saying that the article is not used with a person's name is generally true, but there are times when an article is needed to differentiate one 'Juan' from another. Here are just a few examples:
Existe un debate sobre si el Juan que escribió estas cartas es el mismo que redactó el Evangelio de Juan.
¡Aquel es! ¡Sí, estoy segura que es Juan! -¡Juan Sánchez! – gritó Araceli, pero el Juan que volteó resultó ser otro.
Volvía a ser el Juan que Victoria había conocido.
(By the way, I know of at least one country where they almost always use the feminine definite article in front of a woman's first name, when making a reference to her. A search on "vi a la Juanita" returns many hits, for example.)
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