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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] 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 Cyrillic : 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
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