Fiona is a feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
. The name is associated with the Gaelic traditions of Ireland and Scotland (through the poetry of
James Macpherson), but has also become popular in England.
[.] It can be considered either a
Latinised form of the
Gaelic word ''fionn'', meaning "white", "fair",
or an Anglicisation of the Irish name ''Fíona'' (derived from an element meaning "vine"). The
Scottish Gaelic feminine name ''Fionnghal'' (and variants) is sometimes equated with ''Fiona''.
In ninth-century Welsh and Breton language 'Fion' (today: 'ffion') referred to the foxglove species and is also a female given name as in
Ffion Hague.
''Fiona'' was the 49th most popular name for baby girls born in 2008 in
Germany. ''Fiona'' was tied for third place in the ranking of most popular names for baby girls born in
Liechtenstein in 2008. The name was the 347th most popular name for girls born in the
United States in 2008, where it has ranked among the top 1,000 most popular names for girls since 1990 and among the top 500 since 1999. The name ''Fiona'' has been particularly popular for girls of
Asian or Pacific Islander
Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian a ...
descent in
New York City, where Fiona ranked as the ninth most popular name for girls from those groups in 2007.
Notable people with this name
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Fiona
Fiona is a feminine given name. The name is associated with the Gaelic traditions of Ireland and Scotland (through the poetry of James Macpherson), but has also become popular in England.. It can be considered either a Latinisation of names, Lati ...
, singer, born Fiona Flanagan
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Fiona Alpass, New Zealand academic
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Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released five albums from 1996 to 2020, which have all reached the top 20 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart. Apple has received numerous awards an ...
, American singer
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Fiona Balfour, Australian business executive in the field of information technology
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Fiona Bloom, publicist
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Fiona Bruce, BBC presenter
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Fiona Campbell-Walter, British model
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Fiona Crombie
Fiona Crombie (born c. 1973) is an Australian costume and production designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Production Design for the period film ''The Favourite''.
Crombie was born in Adelaide; when she was two, h ...
, Australian costume and production designer
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Fiona Dourif, American actress
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Fiona Fairhurst, inventor of the Speedo Fastskin swimsuit
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Fiona Ferro, French tennis player
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Melanie Fiona, Canadian singer
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Fiona Fullerton, English actress
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Fiona Fung, Hong Kong singer
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Fiona Gubelmann, American actress
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Fiona Hammond, Australian water polo player
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Fiona Highet, Scottish entomologist
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Fiona Hill, British-American foreign affairs specialist
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Fiona McLeod Hill
Fiona McLeod Hill (born July 1973), formerly known as Fiona Cunningham, is a British political adviser. She served as Joint Downing Street Chief of Staff supporting prime minister Theresa May, alongside Nick Timothy, until her resignation f ...
, British political adviser
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Fiona McLeod, Australian prominent barrister and Labor politician
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Fiona Kennedy, Scottish singer
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Fiona Krautil, Australian specialist in inclusion, diversity and equal opportunity in the workplace
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Fiona MacDonald, Scottish curler
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Fiona J. Mackenzie
Fiona J. Mackenzie is a Scottish Gaelic traditional singer from Dingwall, Highland Scotland, and has toured and performed throughout Europe and North America. In 2005, she won the An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal at the Royal National Mòd in S ...
, Scottish Gaelic singer
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Fiona Mactaggart
Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British politician and former primary school teacher who has been chair of the Fawcett Society since 2018. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough from 1 ...
, British politician
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Fiona May
Fiona May Iapichino (born 12 December 1969 in Slough, England) is a retired track and field athlete who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals. Her perso ...
, English-Italian athlete and actress
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Fiona McFarlane, Australian author
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Fiona Millar, British author and journalist
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Fiona O'Donnell
Fiona O'Donnell (née Kenny; born 27 January 1960) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2010 to 2015.
She served as the Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries ...
, Scottish politician
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Fiona O'Driscoll, Irish camogie player
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Fiona O'Loughlin, Australian stand-up comedian
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Fiona O'Loughlin, Irish politician
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Fiona O'Malley, Irish politician
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Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Irish actor
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Fiona O'Sullivan
Fiona Julia O'Sullivan (born 17 September 1986) is a former footballer who played as a striker for clubs in the United States, Sweden, France, Germany and for English FA WSL team Notts County. Born and raised in the United States to an Irish f ...
, Irish footballer
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Fiona Onasanya, British politician
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Fiona Phillips, British journalist and broadcaster
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Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Fiona Pitt-Kethley (born 21 November 1954) is a British poet, novelist, travel writer and journalist, who is the author of more than 20 books of both poetry and prose. She lived for many years in Hastings, East Sussex, and moved to Spain in 200 ...
, British poet, novelist and journalist
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Fiona Richmond, English glamour model
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Fiona Ritchie, American broadcaster
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Fiona Robinson
Fiona Mary Robinson (born 7 February 1969) is an Australian former professional basketball player. She played 10 seasons in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) and five seasons in the State Basketball League (SBL). She was a member of ...
, Australian basketball and handball player
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Fiona M. Scott Morton, American Professor of Economics
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Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the ''Harry Potter'' film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook in the fourth season of the HBO serie ...
, Irish actress
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Fiona Sit, Hong Kong Cantonese singer
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Fiona Staples, comic book artist
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Fiona Watt, British children's author
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Fiona Xie, Singaporean television actress
Fictional characters
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Princess Fiona, the female lead and a major character in the ''
Shrek'' franchise
* Fiona, stepmother of Sam Montgomery in the 2004 film ''
A Cinderella Story''
* Fiona in Lemony Snicket's ''
A Series of Unfortunate Events''
* Fiona, a character in ''
Dead or Alive Xtreme 3''
* Fiona, a character in ''
Xenoblade Chronicles 3''
* Fiona in the film ''
EuroTrip''
* Fiona, main character in the film ''
Josie and the Pussycats''
* Fiona, a character in ''
Kid vs. Kat
''Kid vs. Kat'' (stylized KiD vs KaT) is a Canadian animated television series that originally aired on YTV in Canada from October 25, 2008, until June 4, 2011. The series was created and co-directed by Rob Boutilier, developed and produced at ...
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* Fiona, one of the regular characters in ''
Round the Horne''
* Fiona, main character in the television series ''
So Weird''
* Fiona, leader of the rebel mages in ''
Dragon Age: Inquisition''
* Fiona, a main player-character from the ''
Tales from the Borderlands'' video game
* Fiona, the closest friend of Jonas in Lois Lowry's 1993 novel ''
The Giver''
* Fiona, a playable character in the Free-to-play game ''
Vindictus''
* Fiona of Fort Weyr, Telgar Weyrwoman in ''
Dragon's Time'' by Anne and Todd McCaffrey
* Fionna, the gender-swapped version of Finn in ''
Adventure Time''
*Fiona Bayar, an antagonist in ''
The Seven Realms
''The Seven Realms'' is a series of four novels written by the American author Cinda Williams Chima. The series genre is high fantasy, set in the Queendom of the Fells - a traditional fantasy world of medieval technology, swordplay, castles, and ...
'' series
* Fiona/Black Fairy in the TV series ''
Once Upon a Time''
*Fiona Belli, protagonist in the game ''
Haunting Ground
''Haunting Ground'' is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. The story follows Fiona Belli, a young woman who wakes up in the dungeon of a castle after being involved in a car accident. S ...
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*Fiona Callahan, a character in the CW show
Charmed
''Charmed'' is an American fantasy drama television series created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company Spelling Television, with Brad Kern serving as showrunner. The series was originally broadcast ...
*Fiona Carter in the BBC show ''
Spooks''
* Fiona Cat, Huckle Cat's mother from ''
The Busy World of Richard Scarry''
*Fiona "Fee" Cleary, matriarch of the Cleary family in
the novel and
mini-series ''The Thorn Birds''
* Fiona Conneely, main character in ''
The Secret of Roan Inish''
*Fiona Coyne, a character in the Canadian television series ''
Degrassi: The Next Generation''
* Fiona Fennec, a character in the comic ''
Kevin and Kell''
* Fiona Flagstaff, a
Spinosaurus character in ''
DinoSquad''
*Fiona Fox, a character in the ''
Sonic the Hedgehog
is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
'' comics by Archie Comics
*Fiona Gallagher, a character in the television drama ''
Shameless''
* Fiona Gilman, a character in the video game ''
Identity V
''Identity V'' is a free-to-play asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror game developed and published by Chinese company NetEase. It was released in July 2018 for mobile devices. It is available on the iOS App Store, Android Google Play Stor ...
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Fiona Glenanne, a main character in the television show ''
Burn Notice
''Burn Notice'' is an American espionage television series created by Matt Nix, which originally aired on the USA Network for a total of seven seasons from June 28, 2007, to September 12, 2013. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, ...
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*Fiona Goode, a character in ''
American Horror Story: Coven''
* Fiona Hackworth in the book ''
The Diamond Age
''The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a Bildungsroman or coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, set in a future world in wh ...
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* Fiona Kerr, a "notorious wet" in the novel ''
The Passion Flower Hotel''
* Fiona Linette, a character in the anime series ''
Zoids: Chaotic Century''
* Fiona Maxwell, one of the main characters in the 1993 novel ''
Tomorrow, When the War Began''
* Fiona Mayfield, a character in the video game series ''
Arcana Heart
is a 2D arcade fighting game series developed by Team Arcana (originally co-owned with its former parent company Examu). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2007. The games feature a ...
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* Fiona McLaren, the main female character in the Broadway musical ''
Brigadoon''
* Lady Fiona McTarry, the alias of Agent Mimi in the James Bond spoof ''
Casino Royale''
* Fiona Pitch, aunt of Baz Grimm-Pitch in Rainbow Rowell's 2015 novel ''
Carry On''
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Fiona Volpe, an assassin in the film ''
Thunderball''
* Fiona Wallice, a character in the television and web series ''
Web Therapy''
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Princess Fiona, sorceress in ''
The Chronicles of Amber'' novels
*Fiona Fraunfeld, a main character in Ransom Riggs' 2001 book ''
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children''
Other
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Fiona (hippopotamus), first Nile hippo imaged on ultrasound pre-natally
See also
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List of Irish-language given names
References
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English feminine given names
Irish feminine given names
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