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The first name 
Queen

Queen is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Queen is a well-known but special name!

Queen is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,128 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,127 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Queen.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Queen

Queen -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Queen annualy. This means that there have been girls named Queen who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Queen have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Queen even more than any other time: in 1907, it holds its present record of #357 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Queen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Queen 2022 among young parents?

Queen has never been ranked higher than #357. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,269 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 162 girls named Queen were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Queen were born, there have been 37 newborns who received this name.

Queen has 5 letters 
and begins with a Q

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The Q is really rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.4% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters U and Q are even rarer as the first letter of girls' names. By the way, the most common initial letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With five letters, the name Queen is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that as 0.4% of all girls' names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average more than nine times as often as the Q. Of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a Q, most are also not very common - the most popular currently is Queen.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Queen

If your name is Queen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Queen

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Queen, you can simply say:

Queen

Unicorn

Elephant

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Queen is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Queen in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Queen

Queen

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Queen

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Queen is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Q
U
E
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Queen

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

Q
U
E
E
N

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Queen sounds like this: