Queenie

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Is Queenie a usable name? Is it more middle name material or do you think it's bad in general?

Adrian Mole, No.

Do you like 20's inspired names in general OP? Clara, Evelyn, Nora.

I like it, but I've only encountered it as a character in Patrick O'Brien's Master & Commander series, set in the early 19th century, and it seems a lovely name for a woman in that context! I had no idea it had all these other connotations though!

I first thought of Margi Clark's character in Making Out.

Lovely, unusual name, especially if you're a bit of a bohemian.

Dogs name

I love it, and would have used it as a nickname if I'd ever had an Elizabeth. However, I wouldn't have used it as a birth certificate name. Works as a nickname for Elizabeth and Victoria, and if you go down the queen consort route also Caroline, Anne, Mary, Charlotte, Adelaide etc

Agree with CherryValance. I would not use it as a formal name and would give Elizabeth or Victoria and then use Queenie as a nickname.

Bad in general.

I see where you are coming from but just fast forward to primary school register and I just can't imagine it. Lily 'yes miss' , Lottie 'yes miss' Queenie ?! I'm not saying names have to be conventional (and samey) but I'm
Just not sure about that and how your child might feel when she's older. Do you have any others that you like?

No. Just no.

I have a careful thoughtful 12 year old we had some more way out names on our list so glad we didn’t use them she would them.

Would you yourself be comfortable being called Queenie?

Whaaaaaaat? Please do not name your child Queenie. It's awful.

I know a 15 year old Queenie.

I did a big eye roll when she was named as a baby but now it just suits her. She's def the only one in the school though.

I know a Queenie, sister of Duchess. Both traveller children. Very cute names for very cute children (both under 5)

If I was called Duchess and my sister was called Queenie I think I'd develop a bit of a complex about that...

I like it but I have a soft spot for anything related to the old time East End.

I am sure they will super.

I love it OP.

See this thread and my response from a few years back...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/2138335-What-does-everyone-think-of-Queenie-as-a-first-name?pg=2&order=

I have a soft spot for it as it was my beloved grandmother’s childhood NN, because she was the eldest of a tribe of girl cousins. Her real name was Frances. However, by the time she was an adult, Queenie had become ‘Q’ and that’s what is on her gravestone.

I wish I’d given my daughter ‘Q’ as a middle ‘name’ in honour of a woman who was as far from the image given by PP upthread as you could get.

Please don't...

I adored my grandmother but she had hideous first names she herself detested she would turn in her grave if any of us used them!

I can't take half of these threads seriously anymore.

Queenie FFS. Fine for a cat.

I love it. Ive always loved it

My Granny was known as Bunty, I actually quite like it