Quene
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: chiene bitch (fern, oichien dog, L canis). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree, from a Norman or Picard form of Ch£ne. 3. aphetic var. of the given name Jacqeme\ see James. Vars
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Quene is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 437K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.4M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 437K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Quené in NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OE cwēn ‘woman’, also used as a personal name; first attested Richard Quene 1301 FS
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
How Quene is read(measured from records)
Quene is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French79%
chiene bitch (fern, oichien dog, L canis). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree, from a Norman or Picard form of Ch£ne. 3. aphetic var. of the given name Jacqeme\ see James. Vars. (of 2): Quesne, Duquesne. Dims, (of 2): Quesnet, Quenet, Quesnel, Quenel, Quesneau, Queneau, Quesnot. Collectives (of 2): Quesnay, Quesney, Quesnoy; Duquesnay, Duquesnoy.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English11%
from OE cwēn ‘woman’, also used as a personal name; first attested Richard Quene 1301 FS
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Obsolete spelling of queen.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Quene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 437K | 25 | Quene | 89 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Quené | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Quene is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, A queen (female monarch; queen regnant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #186,425 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Quene come from?
- from OE cwēn ‘woman’, also used as a personal name; first attested Richard Quene 1301 FS Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Quene?
- A machine transcription gives /kn/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Quene mean?
- In French, chiene bitch (fern, oichien dog, L canis). 2. topographic name for someone who lived by an oak tree, from a Norman or Picard form of Ch£ne. 3. aphetic var. of the given name Jacqeme\ see James. Vars.
- In which country does Quene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 155 people named Quene in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quene.
- How common is the name Quene?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Quene in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/queneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quene”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.