How rare is the name Queen?

7,504 people in the United States have the first name Queen, about 1 in 40,249. It ranks #2,990 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

QUEEN

#2,990

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,504
About
1 in 40,249
This common or more
81.4%
Who bears it

Of the 7,504 people named Queen, 84.4% reported their origin as Black, 5.2% as White and 4% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Queen peaked in 2018, when 282 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2018
Births that year
282
In 2025*
83 ▼71%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 16,123 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Queen by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #672. The largest share of babies named Queen, 24.9%, were born between 1928 and 1945, the Silent Generation's birth years.

1880s#858193
1890s#784345
1900s#672617
1910s#8501,517
1920s#8042,444
1930s#7992,243
1940s#9372,157
1950s#1,2421,803
1960s#2,119723
1970s#4,909230
1980s#6,124213
1990s#4,288494
2000s#4,885576
2010s#2,5431,613
2020s#2,602955
Before 19013.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–2724.7%
Silent Generation 1928–4524.9%
Baby boom 1946–6419.8%
Generation X 1965–803.2%
Millennials 1981–963.1%
Generation Z 1997–125.9%
2013 and later14.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Queen is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Queen has been most common in South Carolina (10×), Mississippi (7.8×), and Alabama (5.5×), and least common in New Jersey (0.09×).

11,819 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Queen

#2,988 Xochitl · 7,510#2,989 Felecia · 7,505#2,991 Anil · 7,485#2,992 Kitty · 7,484

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Queen, most common first.

#3,842 Quyen · 5,127#19,413 Queena · 545#37,938 Quen · 204

Also a last name

As a last name, Queen ranks #1,948 of 156,621, with 18,077 people. See Queen as a last name

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