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The first name 
Queenie

Queenie is a female first name.

When two girls called Queenie meet...

… 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.

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

Queenie -
a special name with a long history going back to the 19th century

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.

Happy Birthday - 19 girls named Queenie celebrate their second birthday this year!

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.

Queenie -
quite rare in all states

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.

Queenie has 7 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 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Queenie

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...

This is how you spell the name Queenie

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

This is how the name Queenie 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 Queenie in Braille?

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

Queenie

Queenie

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

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Queenie 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
I
E

Have you ever waved the name Queenie

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
I
E

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. Queenie sounds like this: