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Queenie

#11,681 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Queen

Queenie has been given to 3,912 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,681 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Queenie, 2025

1 in 414,000

Queenie over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Queenie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Queen

English

What Queenie means

Queenie is a diminutive of Queen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Queenie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkwiːn.i/ for Queenie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Queenie → Queen. The family’s meaning is “woman, wife”, recorded in the naming reference for Queen.

Origin, language, and formation

Queenie is used in English and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Queen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Queenie is pronounced /ˈkwiːni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,912 girls were recorded with the name Queenie between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1917; its best national rank was #497 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,805 in 2020 to #11,681 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,748 in 2015 to #11,681 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Queenie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,681
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Queenie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Queenie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Queenies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Queenie was born before 1934 — so the typical Queenie is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,428
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (582).

Is Queenie rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,263
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,876
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,933
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1917 (70)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#497
1884

Spellings of Queenie

Queenie is not the most common spelling — Queen is, with 66.7% against Queenie's 16.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Queenie is used

Across 1910–2025, Queenie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 41,221 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 7,692
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 14,286
  3. 3Alabama1 in 20,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Queenie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Queenie around the world

Where Queenie ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2012
    #815
    in 2012
  • France
    1990–2023
    #6,207
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,202
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1993–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Queenie

People whose public names include Queenie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Queenie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Queenie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Queeny

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Queenie by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,681
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,876
Best rank ever
#497
1884
Peak year
1917
70 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,912
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Queenie

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Queenie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Queenie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VeronaEdaEvelineAugustineElmiraEulaliaZitaLovieLuveniaAdellaVellaZona

Sibling names for Queenie

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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