Una

Where Una comes from

Anglicized form of Irish Úna. Doublet of Oona.
— Wiktionary's entry for Una
  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1890
    Peak, #329
    59 babies named Una — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    Una Merkel born
    American actress
  4. 1937
    Una Stubbs born
    English actress, television personality, and former dancer
  5. 1966
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,249.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Una Merkel · American actress, 1903–1986
  • Una Stubbs · English actress, television personality, and former dancer, 1937–2021
  • Una O'Connor · Irish actress, 1880–1959
  • Una Healy · Irish singer, songwriter and musician, born 1981
  • Una Mae Carlisle · American jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter, 1915–1956

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.