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Queenie

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RetroMum1 · 10/02/2012 18:46

Thoughts on Queenie?

I love Queenie, we are in south east London and I love that she would have a sense of relevant local history to her name.

There are a lot of the old fashioned names coming back around here like Dolly, Mabel, Ethel and Maud so I don't think it would be that out there and I really do like the idea of her beng able to tell people about the history of her name.

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redrubyshoes · 23/02/2012 13:55

I thought that Queenie was the anglicised version of the name Malka which is middle eastern?

Might be wrong though.

darksideofthemooncup · 23/02/2012 11:47

Regan is a unisex name but I always think of it as a girls name. I have just looked it up and it means Royal or Regal - I clearly have far too much time on my hands Grin

cminor · 22/02/2012 21:19

Away from the East End Queenie is a gypsy name, or was 70 years ago.

slapmeonthepatio · 22/02/2012 12:27

Actually, I always think of it as a girls' name too. I find it most odd on a boy.

WhereYouLeftIt · 22/02/2012 12:15

Am I the only one here old enough to remember Diana Dors as Queenie on TV?

iseenodust · 22/02/2012 11:43

Sorry no. Only one step removed from Princess.

ChickensHaveNoLips · 22/02/2012 11:41

Regan to me will always be a girls name. There is a penis owning Regan in DS1's class at school, too.

sparkle12mar08 · 22/02/2012 11:39

Quenelle could be real - according to Ancestry's free public search there are two Quenelle's registered on the 1916-2005 indexes!

slapmeonthepatio · 22/02/2012 11:23

I know a 4 year old boy named Regan. I presume he has a penis...

ChickensHaveNoLips · 22/02/2012 11:19

DS2 would have been a Regan if he hadn't had a penis

PerryCombover · 22/02/2012 11:04

I had a lovely NH brood mare called Queenie

squoosh · 22/02/2012 11:02

Queenie is very found a port and lemon first thing in the morning. She gets quite tipsy quite often and like nothing more than to tell people about the time she had had a fumble in the Anderson Shelter with Alf from the greengrocers down the road, not the greengrocers that sells those nice tomatoes but the one that?s beside the pawnbrokers.

Queenie would always Nora Batty tights that were a bit wrinkly around the ankles. She still fancies Alf from the greengrocers down the road.

Bubbaluv · 21/02/2012 02:26

Queenie was quite popular in Aus around the turn of the century(ish) and I think it's a lot nicer than a lot of the names of a similar vintage which are making a comeback (Maude, Dolly, Esme, Ethel etc). It's a bit cutesie though, so could it be a nn?
(Not for Quenelle though - that simply can't be for real?)Shock

slapmeonthepatio · 21/02/2012 01:28

It's Irish. Not Sweeney - but similar Grin.

NatashaBee · 21/02/2012 01:27

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slapmeonthepatio · 21/02/2012 00:58

Someone might've said upthread (sorry, I've not read it all) that it would be a nn for 'Elizabeth' as previously it would have been a nn for 'Victoria'. I believe F R Leavis' wife was named Queenie - but her real name was, in fact, Malka - which is, I think I read somewhere, Hebrew for Queen.

slapmeonthepatio · 21/02/2012 00:55

Love it. Sadly, it rhymes with our surname :(

dandelionss · 19/02/2012 12:47

Reminds me of Blackadder!!
Don't like it one bit!

Blx2thelotofem · 19/02/2012 04:00

retromum1, as an East End girl myself, I absolutely love it! Hope you end up using it - do let us know.

Coconutty · 17/02/2012 20:49

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PinkFondantFancy · 17/02/2012 20:46

What about Regina instead?

oikopolis · 17/02/2012 20:44

Call her Regina (queen), Reinette (little queen) or Candace (queen mother), and nn her Queenie if you must.

Or Elizabeth, Victoria, Alexandra.

Queenie on a bcert is just horrid, sorry.

LouMacca · 16/02/2012 13:58

Please no, it's awful......

pranma · 16/02/2012 12:59

Well I like it very much-it fits all ages and is unusual without being made-up or celeb/silly.

Bellaholland · 15/02/2012 10:31

I love different names. At first I thought no way! But now I have read all the comments and understand more about the meaning a think it's a great name! I think you need to wait to meet your baby before you go right on in there and give her such a strong name! Maybe after a few hours with her you just think she is not a Queenie or you may think she deffinetly is! I know this sounds odd but we had the same with our daughter and we knew very quickly she was her name!

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