Queenie

[RetroMum1]

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.

It's horrible. Really, really horrible. Don't do it.

I think it's awful too and I come from South East London. I don't associate it with the area at all. Looking it up I see that it was a nickname sometimes used for girls who shared their given name with the queen of the time. I don't like the meaning much either: 'woman'

It's dd3s middle name after my great aunt who brought my mum up so was more like my gran really.
It took four girls between me & my sister before I had the courage to use it on the 5th!
I wouldn't use it as a first name though.

Btw my aunts name was Queen

I love it. My neighbour (who is in her nineties and real name is Victoria) has always been called Queenie. I also know a Queenie in her 30s.

Its a real, old London name and was very popular in the East End in years gone by.

if you like the bloody Queen that much call her Elizabeth, don't burden her with Queenie.

Queenie was usually a nickname but was sometimes a given name - Queenie Leavis (literary critic and wife of FR Leavis) was a Queenie, not a nickname as far as I can tell, she was born in 1906. HTH

Cruel and abusive??
Please get a grip?!
This is my daughters name we are talking about it, you may not like it but I think you may be taking it a bit too far, she is 14 and never had any issues with her name, believe it or not

There are so many dullard Evies and Isobels. Go for it!

"There are so many dullard Evies and Isobels"

Nice.

Its horrid, is the child going to be one of those pearly king or queens in later life??

Oh wind your neck in seeker. People have slated this name, I am just offering an alternative viewpoint.

love it, such lovely connections you have with it, or associations.

your child if you like it, go for it.

Makes me think Black Adder. Love it :)

Pearl is pretty, Marguerite / Margaret also mean pearl.

Queenie isn't a name I would like to put on my CV. I think it would be very limiting for an adult. So even though I love Blackadder, I just couldn't.

Love it, you could always go for Regan which I think means Queen (and is a Shakespearean name, one of King Lear's daughters) I would definitely go with Queenie though.

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!

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

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

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.

What about Regina instead?

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

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

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

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.