Queen

Where Queen comes from

Queen hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1907
    Peak, #369
    91 babies named Queen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,783.
  4. 1981
    Queen Nwokoye born
    Nigerian film actress
  5. 1995
    Queen Naija born
    American singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Queen Nwokoye · Nigerian film actress, born 1981
  • Queen Naija · American singer, born 1995
  • Queen Tripurasundari · Nepalese Queen Mother and regent, 1794–1832
  • Queen Harrison · American hurdler and sprinter, born 1988
  • Queen Esther Marrow · American soul and gospel singer, born 1941

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.