Queenie

[erinscupcake]

I heard this one the other day and quite liked it. What is it short for other than Elizabeth? I read somewhere it can be short for Gwendolyn.

Also do you know any called Queenie, as in that's their real name?

[Username12345]

From Nameberry: Started as nickname for girls named Regina

[SuzySheepSmellsNice]

Tbh I'm not keen. It was my Great Aunt's name. Buy hey, it's probably due a revival...

[MMcanny]

No. Just no.

[catbus]

I dono know any irl but it conjures up the mental image of Bert Baxter's girlfriend in Adrian Mole

[catbus]

*Don't

[Izzy24]

I know a cat called Queenie.

[girlsyearapart]

Also my great aunts name! She was christened Queen and called Queenie.
She was an ace person & brought my mum up.
I chose it for dd3s middle name.
Considering my sister had two girls and I had another two it wasn't until the 5th girl that one of us used the name..
I love it as I loved my auntie so much but I wouldn't use as a first name.
Btw Dd3 is Matilda Queenie & I think it's a pretty cool name

[KatieKaye]

Famous literary critic Queenie Leavis. Don't think it was short for anything

[rockybalboa]

We had a chicken called Queenie...

[DoItTooJulia]

I love it. I suspect I'll be in the minority.

[CLJ52]

My granny referred to scampi as "queenies" - she was from the North East of Scotland.

Just googled it and got a lot of pictures of scallops.....

[QueenieBaxter]

Love it

[Pantone363]

I love it, quite popular in Liverpool I think.

My scouse nanny always calls me queenie

[YoullLikeItNotaLot]

Elderly ex-prostitute. Yes, really. Friend of the family.

[redhatnoknickers]

I know a Margaret known as Queenie, lovely woman, lovely name!

[HolyTerror]

Gives me an uncomfortable double exposure of QD Leavis and Bert Baxter's girlfriend in the Adrian Mole books. I would class it the 'difficult to revive' names like Mavis, Doris and Beryl, which remain more 'fusty great aunt' than granny-chic hipster toddler.

[Interrobang]

I love it. Friend of a friend just named their baby this - real actual name. Named after an old relative, who I believe was also an official Queenie.

[RedandCurlyforNow]

that is a dreadful name.

Definitely a difficult to revive name. Although I find Beryl quite pretty. Queenie is a bichon frisse imo

[FairyPenguin]

I really don't like this. And I am quite liking the revival of a lot of traditional names.

[AuditAngel]

My GM was Florence NN Queenie.

I wouldn't use it. She wasn't a great mum, she was a worse GM.

[HesterShaw]

Makes me think of Lord Flashheart chatting up Elizabeth I in Blackadder II. Or Bert Baxter's wife and this poem by the genius who is Adrian Mole:

White face, red cheeks.
Eyes like crocus buds.
Hands deft and sure, yet worked to gnarled rots.
A practical comfortable body, dressed in young colours.
Feet twisted, but planted firmly on the ground.
A sure soft voice, with a crackly sudden laugh.
Her body is lifeless and cold,
But the memory of her is joyful and as warm as a rockpool in August.

:o

not a child's name.

[AstonVilla83]

My nans name is Queenie Evelyn and she is a wonderful, strong woman, love the name

[AstonVilla83]

My nans name is Queenie Evelyn and she is a wonderful, strong woman, love the name

[YonicSleighdriver]

No one else posted "50 ft queenie" yet?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKLiU7Hq93w