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 Irish. Not Sweeney - but similar .

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?)

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.

I had a lovely NH brood mare called Queenie

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

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

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

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

Sorry no. Only one step removed from Princess.

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

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

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

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

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

Might be wrong though.