Queenie

Where Queenie comes from

From queen + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Queenie
  • English
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1854
    Queenie Newall born
    British archer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #518 among girls — 11 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #479
    18 babies named Queenie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1898
    Queenie Smith born
    American actress
  5. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,982.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Queenie Newall · British archer, 1854–1929
  • Queenie Smith · American actress, 1898–1978
  • Queenie Leonard · British actress, 1905–2002
  • Queenie McKenzie · Aboriginal Australian artist of the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 1930–1998
  • Queenie Chu · Hong Kong actress, born 1981

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.