Queenie

[RetroMum1]

Any thoughts?

I wrote on an earlier thread that I was thinking of using it for DD2 and thought I'd open up it's own thread!

Sorry but it's really really really not for me.

It's akin to naming your daughter Princess, in my opinion.

Either that or the nickname for a really old woman whose real name is Euphemia or something.

Honestly?
It sounds like a prostitute's name....sorry.

no, please, no

nope. isn't it the name of revolting character from one of the adrian mole books?

you will make your baby sound like an ageing harridan from birth, which is never a good thing

it's retro, but it ain't cute

don't go there

I really like it

Vile I'm afraid!

Like some 50 fags a day screeching harridan sitting in a rough East End boozer.

Ditto MistleToad

There are lots of lovely names out there - why not pick one of them instead?

No.

I really like it, but feel it ought to have a proper name - which is why I would consider Victoria, with Queenie as a nn.

bit too 'blackadder' for me...

It's the nickname of someone named after the current Queen - Elizabeth atm, previously Victoria and I guess Kate/Catherine in the future...

Sorry, but it's horrible. I'm not going to describe what it conjures up in my mind as it would get me in trouble on here - just NO.

As for tummytickler - I really hope you said that in jest

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Oh like the Enid Blyton character? Wasn't she the girl with a stone heart?? Not a fan myself.

Sounds like a nickname for ones lady garden.

I see it as very, very old fashioned, but in a nice, quaint way, IYSWIM. I knew one who was about the same age as my granny.

It also reminds me of "Queenie, Queenie, who's got the ball" ( does anyone still play that?)

It's a real old East End name.

I know a couple of ancient old Queenies, and one in her 30s.

Absolutely love it.

Terrible. Are you going to buy one of those porcelain comemorative plates with will and kate for £70? I wonder who would buy one?!

the same person who'd call their child Queenie??

Just thinking

Queen as a name I could deal with. But making it Queen ie is what makes me need a ginger cracker.

Absolutely not. It's a terrible name.

3nearly4 hahaha.....

No, sorry. It's my Gran's nn as she has three forenames, all names of queens, but even so I don't think it's right for a little girl.

awful

Bert Baxter's lady friend in Adrian Mole. Forever associated with false teeth and too much rouge, sorry.

I knew someone who had a cat called Queenie, so that's what I think of when I hear it, and the Adrian Mole character.

And some older scousers will call any woman "Queen" in conversation.

Just can't imagine calling a child Queenie....