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 Noel 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