Una is a feminine

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with various origins. As used by

Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (; – 13 January 1599 Old Style and New Style dates, O.S.) was an English poet best known for ''The Faerie Queene'', an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the House of Tudor, Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is re ...

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'', the name is derived from the

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''unus'', meaning ''

one 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

''. The Filipino word "una" meaning "first" (e.g., in Tagalog and Cebuano) is also derived from this Latin root. Úna is an

Irish language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous ...

version that may be derived from the Irish word ''uan'' 'lamb'. An alternative spelling is Oona. The

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

form is Ùna.https://www.behindthename.com/name/oona

People with the name

* Una Abell-Brinker (1874–1952), American actress * Una Stella Abrahamson (1922–1999), English-born Canadian artist and writer *

Una Baines Una Baines (born April 1957) is best known as the keyboard (instrument), keyboard player in the first line-up of British Post punk, post-punk/New wave music, new wave band The Fall (band), the Fall. Her feminist viewpoint helped shape the band' ...

(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 Una Chi (born Bruna Bianchi; Milan, 5 June 1942 – Cisternino, 19 January 2021) was an Italian translator and writer. Life Bruna Bianchi was born in Milan in 1942. For many years she was a professor of German literature at the University of Mi ...

(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 Una Lucy Fielding (20 May 1888 – 11 August 1969) was an Australian neuroanatomist. Early life Una Fielding was born in Wellington, New South Wales to Anglican clergyman and author Rev. Sydney Glanville Fielding and his wife Lucy Frances (née ...

(1888–1969), Australian neuroanatomist *

Una Hale Una Rosalind Hale (18 November 1922 – 4 March 2005) was an Australian operatic soprano, mainly known in her native country and in the United Kingdom. History Hale was born in Wayville, South Australia to Unitarian minister George Ernest Hale ...

(1922-2005), Australian operatic soprano *

Una Hanbury Una Hanbury (née Rawnsley), (1904–1990) was an American sculptor best known for her bronze portraits. Hanbury was born Una Rawnsley in the English town of Staines and grew up primarily in Kent. Her grandfather was Hardwicke Rawnsley. After gr ...

(1904–1990), American sculptor *

Una Harkin Una Matilda Harkin (born 20 January 1983) is an Irish Gaelic and association football player. In Gaelic football, she is known for her time as a Derry player, reaching the 2008 All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship final with them, a ...

(born 1983), Irish Gaelic and association football player *

Una Healy Una Theresa Imogene Healy (born 10 October 1981) is an Irish singer. She rose to fame in 2008 as a member of five-piece girl group The Saturdays, who are signed to Fascination and Polydor Records. The group later gained another record deal wi ...

(born 1981), Irish singer-songwriter and member of the girlgroup

The Saturdays The Saturdays are an English-Irish girl group based in London, England. The group formed during the summer of 2007 and has been on hiatus since 2014. The lineup consists of Frankie Bridge, Una Healy, Rochelle Humes, Mollie King, and Vanessa Whi ...

* Una B. Herrick (1863–1950), American educator *

Una Hunt Una Hunt Clarke Drage (January 6, 1876 – November 10, 1957)Ancestry.com, U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974, Death Reports in State Department Decimal File, 1910 to 1962, Box 1042: 1955 - 1959, image 666. was an Ame ...

(1876–1957), American author *

Una Jagose Una Jagose is New Zealand's Solicitor-General and King's Counsel, appointed in February and June 2016 respectively. Early life and education Jagose was born and raised in Cambridge, New Zealand. Her parents were both medical professionals w ...

(fl. from 1990), New Zealand lawyer *

Una Leacy Una Leacy is a camogie player and winner of two All-Star awards. Leacy's first All-Star came in 2007, the year her two early goals helped Wexford win their first All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in 32 years, and her second in 2011. She wo ...

(born 1988), Irish camogie player *

Una McCormack Una McCormack (born 13 January 1972) is a British-Irish academic, scriptwriter and novelist. She is the author of ''The Baba Yaga'' (2015) and ''The Star of the Sea'' (2016), two books in the ''Weird Space'' series from UK science fiction publis ...

(born 1972), British-Irish academic, scriptwriter and novelist *

Una McLean Una McLean MBE (born 12 January 1930) is a Scottish actress and comedian. She is best known for appearing in pantomimes. She was married to Scottish stage and film actor Russell Hunter from 1991 until his death in 2004. McLean trained at the ...

(born 1930), Scottish actress and comedian *

Una Marson Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC, d ...

(1905–1965), Jamaican feminist *

Una Merkel Una Merkel (December 10, 1903 – January 2, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress. Merkel was born in Kentucky and acted on stage in New York in the 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1930 and became a popular fil ...

(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) Una O'Connor (born Agnes Teresa McGlade, 23 October 1880 – 4 February 1959) was an Irish-born American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actor, character actress in film and in television. She often port ...

(1880–1959), Irish actress * Úna O'Connor (camogie) (1938–2020), Irish camogie player * Una O'Keefe (born 1954), widow of

Harry Nilsson Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experi ...

* 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 Úna Palliser is an Irish born, London-based violinist, violist, singer and multi-instrumentalist who as well as being classically trained, is recognised for her proficiency in many musical genres, including rock, jazz, Balkan and Irish folk. ...

(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 Una Stubbs (1 May 1937 – 12 August 2021) was a British actress, television personality, and dancer who appeared on British television, in the theatre, and occasionally in films. She became known after appearing in the film '' Summer Holiday'' ...

(1937–2021), English actress *

Una Troy Una Troy Walsh (21 May 1910 – 27 September 1993) was an List of Irish novelists, Irish novelist and playwright who wrote under the names Elizabeth Connor and Una Troy. Early life Troy was born in Fermoy, County Cork, the daughter of John S ...

(1910-1993), Irish novelist *

Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor; 8 March 1887 – 24 September 1963) was a British sculptor and translator. She is best known as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author of ''The Wel ...

(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 ''

'' by

* Una Hamilton, a character in '' East of Eden'' by

John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck ( ; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social percep ...

* Una, one codename of the DC Comics superheroine

Luornu Durgo Triplicate Girl (Luornu Durgo) is a superhero appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. She has also had the aliases Duo Damsel, Triad, Una, Duplicate Damsel, and Duplicate Girl. ...

* Una (''Stardust''), a character in '' Stardust'' by

Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman; 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, audio theatre, and screenplays. His works include the comic series ''The Sandman (comic book), The Sandma ...

* Una Chin-Riley, nicknamed " Number One", in the ''

Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the Star Trek: The Original Series, series of the same name and became a worldwide Popular culture, pop-culture Cultural influence of ...

'' franchise *Otomachi Una, a Vocaloid software voicebank introduced in

Vocaloid 4 Vocaloid 4 is a singing voice synthesizer and successor to Vocaloid 3 in the Vocaloid series. It was succeeded by Vocaloid 5. History In October 2014, the first Vocaloid confirmed for the Vocaloid 4 engine was the English vocal Ruby. Its rel ...

. * Una Nancy Owen, a character in ''

And Then There Were None ''And Then There Were None'' is a mystery fiction, mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, who described it as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 N ...

'' by

Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ...

. * Una Spencer, the main character in the play ''Blackbird'' by

David Harrower David Harrower (born 1966) is a Scottish playwright who (as of 2005) lives in Glasgow. Harrower has published over 10 original works, as well as numerous translations and adaptations. Career Harrower's first play, ''Knives in Hens'', which pr ...

. * Una Meredith, a character in '' Rainbow Valley'' by

Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with '' Anne of Green Gables''. Sh ...

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* http://medievalscotland.org/kmo/AnnalsIndex/Feminine/Una.shtml {{DEFAULTSORT:Una Irish-language feminine given names Feminine given names

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