Queenie (name) explained

The name Queenie is an affectionate, or pet use, of the term "queen", and is thought to be derived from the Old English word "cwen", meaning 'woman' rather than a reference to the monarch or his wife.

As a first name it can also mean "Royal Lady" or "Ruler". In this sense the name is also used as a nickname or pet name for a girl who shares her first name with a Queen. As such, it was popular name during the Victorian era in the British Empire. It was once very popular in London's East End.

Given name

• Queenie Chu (born 1981), Hong Kong television presenter and actress
• Q. D. Leavis (1900–1982), English literary critic and essayist
• Queenie McKenzie (c. 1930 – 1998), indigenous Australian artist
• Queenie Rosson (1889–1978), American silent film actress
• Queenie Smith (1898–1978), American stage, film and television actress
• Queenie Thomas (1898–1977), British actress
• Queenie Watts (1926–1980), English actress and singer
• Queenie Ashton (1903–1999), stage name of British-born soprano and English and Australian character actress Ethel Muriel Cover (née Ashton)
• Queenie Chong, Brunei businessperson and politician

Nickname

• Mary Jane Cain (1844–1929), Aboriginal Australian human rights activist
• Queenie Newall (1854–1929), British archer
• Merle Oberon (1911–1979), Anglo-Indian actress
• Jimmy O'Rourke (baseball) (1883–1955), American professional baseball player
• Stephanie St. Clair (1886–1969), a French gangster who operated out of New York's Harlem

Stage names

• Queenie Leighton (1874–1943), stage name of British music hall star Lilian Caroline Augusta Rickard
• Queenie Leonard (1905–2002), stage name of English character actress and singer Pearl Walker
• Queenie, a performer in the English pop quintet King (pop band)
• Queenie Williams (1896–1962), stage name of Australian actress Alfreda Ina Williams

Animals

• Queenie (Melbourne elephant) (died 1944)
• Queenie (waterskiing elephant) (1952–2011)

Fictional characters

• Queenie, a character in the American television series American Horror Story
• Queenie or Queeney, a character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian
• Queenie (Blackadder), a caricature of Elizabeth I of England in the British TV series Blackadder
• Queenie, a dog in Truman Capote's short story "A Christmas Memory"
• Queenie, a character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
• Queenie, a character in the musical Show Boat
• Queenie, a character in Joseph Moncure March's poem "The Wild Party" (poem)
• Queenie Gibbons, a character in Noël Coward's play This Happy Breed
• Queenie Goldstein, a character in Fantastic Beasts (film series)
• Queenie Kelley, the main character from Queenie (miniseries)
• Queenie Price, a character in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw, a character from the Fast & Furious franchise
• Queenie Yoh, a character in the 2018 Japanese anime Lost Hope (TV series)

External links

• "Queenie" entry on Nameberry