Queenie is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Queenie is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Queenie. In the SmartGenius ranking, Queenie is #3,691 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Queenie.
Queenie is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1982, where the name Queenie was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Queenie and were born in the USA in 1982, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Queenie even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1884, it ranked on position 456 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Queenie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Queenie has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 19 times and thus landed on position 5,448 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 19 girls with the name Queenie, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Queenie are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Queenie is registered in 10 states, among which are Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland or New York. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Queenie live in South Carolina, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 7,244 would turn around if you called the name Queenie across South Carolina.
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 seven letters, the name Queenie has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
If your name is Queenie 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Queenie, you can simply say:
Queen
Unicorn
Elephant
Elephant
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Queenie
Queenie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Queenie sounds like this: