Una (given name)
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Una is a feminine given name with various origins. As used by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, the name is derived from the Latin unus, meaning one.[1] Una is a currently popular name for girls in Serbia,[2] where the name also has associations with the Una River.[3] The Filipino word "una" meaning "first" (e.g., in Tagalog and Cebuano) is also derived from this Latin root.[citation needed]
Úna is an Irish language version that may be derived from the Irish word uan 'lamb'.[4] An alternative spelling is Oona. The Scottish Gaelic form is Ùna.[5][6]
People with the name
[edit]- Una Abell-Brinker (1874–1952), American actress
- Una Stella Abrahamson (1922–1999), English-born Canadian artist and writer
- Una Baines (born 1957), British keyboard player and member of The Fall
- Una Mabel Bourne (1882–1974), Australian pianist and composer
- Una Budd (born 1975), Irish international cricketer
- Una Carter (1890–1954), New Zealand cooking teacher, demonstrator and writer
- Una Chi (1942–2021), Italian translator and writer
- Una S. T. Clarke (born 1934), American politician
- Una Crawford O'Brien (fl. from 1998), Irish actor
- Una Deerbon (1882–1972), Australian studio potter
- Una Ellis-Fermor (1894–1958), English literary critic and author
- Una Lucy Fielding (1888–1969), Australian neuroanatomist
- Una Hale (1922–2005), Australian operatic soprano
- Una Hanbury (1904–1990), American sculptor
- Una Harkin (born 1983), Irish Gaelic and association football player
- Una Healy (born 1981), Irish singer-songwriter and member of the girlgroup The Saturdays
- Una B. Herrick (1863–1950), American educator
- Una Hunt (1876–1957), American author
- Una Jagose (fl. from 1990), New Zealand lawyer
- Una Leacy (born 1988), Irish camogie player
- Una Marson (1905–1965), Jamaican feminist
- Una McCormack (born 1972), British-Irish academic, scriptwriter and novelist
- Una McLean (born 1930), Scottish actress and comedian
- Una Merkel (1903–1986), American actress
- Una Morris (born 1947), Jamaican sprinter, physician and restaurateur
- Una Mullally (born 1983), Irish journalist and broadcaster
- Una O'Brien, British senior civil servant 2010–2016
- Una O'Connor (actress) (1880–1959), Irish actress
- Úna O'Connor (camogie) (1938–2020), Irish camogie player
- Una O'Donoghue (born 1981), Irish camogie player
- Una O'Dwyer (camogie), Irish camogie player
- Una O'Hagan (born 1962), Irish author and journalist
- Una O'Keefe (born 1954), widow of Harry Nilsson
- Una Paisley (1922–1977), Australian cricket player
- Úna Palliser (fl. from 2002), Irish-born musician
- Una Platts (1908–2005), New Zealand artist and art historian
- Una Pope-Hennessy (1875–1949), British historian
- Una Power, English-born Irish card reader and author
- Una Raymond-Hoey (born 1996), Irish cricketer
- Una Ross, 25th Baroness de Ros (1879–1956), British peer
- Una Ryan (born 1941), British-American biologist
- Una M. Ryan (born 1966), Irish biochemist
- Una Stubbs (1937–2021), English actress
- Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887–1963), British sculptor and translator
- Una Troy (1910–1993), Irish novelist
- Una Watters (1918–1965), Irish artist and librarian
- Una White (died 1997), Jamaican-British nurse
Fictional characters with the name
[edit]- Una, a character in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- Una Hamilton, a character in East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Una, one codename of the DC Comics superheroine Luornu Durgo
- Una (Stardust), a character in Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Una Chin-Riley, nicknamed "Number One", in the Star Trek franchise
- Otomachi Una, a Vocaloid software voicebank introduced in Vocaloid 4.
- Una Nancy Owen, a character in And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
- Una Spencer, the main character in the play Blackbird by David Harrower.
- Una Meredith, a character in Rainbow Valley by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
- Saint Una Everlasting, the titular character of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-19-861060-2.
- ↑ https://www.magazin.novosti.rs/scc/zivot-plus/porodica/vest/lista-najpopularnijih-imena-u-srbiji-2024-godine-prvo-na-listi-proglaseno-najlepsim-imenom-u-svetu/1580323
- ↑ https://nationalpark-una.ba/bs/podkategorija.php?id=14
- ↑ Behind the Name: Úna
- ↑ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Una - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ↑ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Oona - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
External links
[edit]- "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Úna". medievalscotland.org. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
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