Una (given name)
Úna is an Irish language feminine given name. It may be derived from the Irish word uan (lamb).[1] Also, the name Una might mean "the personification of truth, beauty, and unity" cited.[2] Alternative spellings are Una and Oona . The Scottish Gaelic form is Ùna.
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 former international cricketer
- Una Carter (1890–1954), New Zealand cooking teacher, demonstrator and writer
- Una Chi (born 1942), Italian translator and writer
- Una S. T. Clarke (born 1934), American politician
- Una Crawford O'Brien, Irish actor
- Una Damon (born 1964), South Korean and American actress
- Una Deerbon (1882–1972), Australian studio potter
- Una Ellis-Fermor (1894-1958), English literary critic, 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 (born 1876), American author
- Una Jagose, lawyer and Queen's Counsel from New Zealand
- Una Leacy, 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 retired sprinter
- Una Mullally, Irish journalist and broadcaster
- Una O'Brien, British senior civil servant
- Úna O'Connor (born 1938), Irish sportsperson
- Una O'Connor (1880–1959), Irish actress
- Úna O'Connor (camogie), Irish sportswoman
- Una O'Keefe (born 1954) widow of Harry Nilsson
- Úna O'Donoghue (born 1981), Irish sportsperson
- Una O'Dwyer (camogie), Irish camogie player
- Una O'Hagan (born 1962), Irish author, journalist and former newsreader
- Una Paisley (1922-1977), Australian cricket player
- Úna Palliser, Irish-born violinist, violist, singer and multi-instrumentalist
- 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, Jamaican-British nurse
Fictional characters with the name
- Una, a character in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- Una, one codename of the DC Comics superheroine Luornu Durgo
- Una (Stardust), a character in Stardust by Neil Gaiman
- Una, the name of Number One in Star Trek
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Una (given name)
- List of Irish-language given names
- Una (disambiguation)
References
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