Queenie ranks at #631 with 196 entries, registered female. The name is the affectionate-diminutive form of Queen, with a long history in American pet culture as the slightly-grand-but-not-too-formal pick for the household's clear ranking matriarch. The dog who walks first and eats first.
The royal-affection cohort
Queenie sits with Duchess, Princess, Lady, and Empress in the royal-title pet pocket. Within that group Queenie is the warmest and least formal, because the -ie ending softens the title into a nickname rather than a declaration. Owners are not actually claiming the dog is royalty; they are leaning into the household joke about who runs the place.
The Mrs. Doubtfire and Black Adder overlays
For different generational cohorts Queenie carries different overlays: the family-dog Queenie in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, and Queenie as the Queen Elizabeth I parody character in the BBC sitcom Black Adder II. Neither dominates, but both reinforce the slightly-camp-affectionate register that the name carries across pet culture.
Breed lean and sound
The name lands disproportionately on small-to-medium breeds where the regal-but-tiny visual contrast clicks: Cavaliers (the breed name does some of the work), Pomeranians, Maltese, and Shih Tzus. Two syllables, front-stressed (QWEEN-ee), clean recall. The human Queenie page shows minimal SSA presence; pet Queenie owns the cultural space, and the name has barely lived on a human chart for a century.