How Many People Are Named Queen?

7,965

people named Queen are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 42,910 people in the US has this name

Based on 16,123 babies named Queen in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,829

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,578

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Peak Year

2018

282 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: KWEEN
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

From an old nickname which was derived from the English word, ultimately from Old English cwen meaning "woman, wife".

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Queen (99.9%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Queen alive today is about 45 years old, and 47% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 10 and 75 in 2025.

Under 30 3,331
41.8%
30 to 59 861
10.8%
60 and over 3,773
47.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Queen first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2018, to 282 babies. In 2025, 83 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Queen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #369, in 1907. In 2025 it ranked #2,234.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,234
Best rank#369 (1907)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#440 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Queen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Queen were born in South Carolina than in any other state: about 644 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Queen was given 8.1 times as often in South Carolina, 5.9 times in Mississippi and 4.3 times in Alabama.

South Carolina 644
North Carolina 621
Georgia 580
Florida 492
Mississippi 455
Texas 428
Alabama 382
New York 300
Virginia 291
California 209
Arkansas 166
Illinois 155
Louisiana 147
Tennessee 119
Ohio 117
Pennsylvania 98
Michigan 95
Missouri 58
Maryland 43
Indiana 32
New Jersey 30
Arizona 25
Wisconsin 12
Nevada 10
Minnesota 6
District of Columbia 6
Washington 5
Kentucky 5
Oklahoma 2

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