Oona

Where Oona comes from

Borrowed from Irish Úna; doublet of Una.
— Wiktionary's entry for Oona
  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,622 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #1,636
    131 babies named Oona — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2025
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,751.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.