Una (given name) explained
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] This is also the meaning implied for the given name of Star Trek character Una Chin-Riley, commonly called Number One.
Úna is an Irish language version that may be derived from the Irish word uan 'lamb'.[2] An alternative spelling is Oona. The Scottish Gaelic form is Ùna.
Una (Serbian: Уна) is furthermore a popular given name in former-Yugoslav countries (including Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro), likely also deriving from the Latin unus.
People with the name
- 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 McCormack (born 1972), British-Irish academic, scriptwriter and novelist
- Una McLean (born 1930), Scottish actress and comedian
- Úna MacLochlainn (born 1987), Irish singer-songwriter
- Una Marson (1905–1965), Jamaican feminist
- 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'Keefe (born 1954), widow of Harry Nilsson
- 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 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 Troy (1910-1993), Irish novelist
- Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887-1963), British sculptor and translator
- Una Watters (1918-1965), Irish artist and librarian
- Una White (died 1997), Jamaican-British nurse
Fictional characters with the name
See also
References
- Book: Hanks. Patrick. Hardcastle. Kate . Hodges. Flavia. 2006. Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press . 267. 0-19-861060-2.
- http://www.behindthename.com/name/u10na Behind the Name: Úna
External links
- http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Una.shtml
