Una (given name)

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] 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'. ^[2] An alternative spelling is Oona. The Scottish Gaelic form is Ùna. ^{[3] [4]}

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
• 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

• 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.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Una (given name)
• List of Irish-language given names
• Una (disambiguation)
• Saint Hunna (died 679)

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 267. ISBN   0-19-861060-2.
2. Behind the Name: Úna
3. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Una - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
4. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Oona - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 26 July 2025.

External links

• "Index of Names in Irish Annals: Úna". medievalscotland.org. Retrieved 26 July 2025.