Oona
Oona is a feminine given name. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish-language name Úna. Apart from Ireland, it is also a popular name in Finland.[1] A variant spelling of Oona is Oonagh.
People with the name[]
Oona[]
- Oona Chaplin (born 1986), Spanish actress and dancer
- Oona Garthwaite (born 1982), American singer-songwriter
- Oona A. Hathaway (born 1972), American law professor
- Oona Hart, American model and actress
- Oona King (born 1967), British politician
- Oona Laurence (born 2002), American actress
- Oona Louhivaara (born 1987), Finnish actress
- Oona O'Neill (1925–1991), wife of Charlie Chaplin
- Oona Sormunen (born 1989), Finnish athlete
Oonagh[]
- Oonagh Guinness (1910 – 1995), Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector
- Oonagh McDonald, businesswoman
- Senta-Sofia Delliponti, known by the stage name Oonagh, German singer
Fictional people with the name[]
- Princess Oona, a character in Disney's Donald Duck comics
- Oonagh Mullarkey, from the Marvel universe
- Princess Oona, a mermaid in Disney's Sofia the First cartoon
- Queen Oona, a character in Disenchantment
- Oona, the protagonist of the Irish TV series Puffin Rock
- Oona from Nick Jr.'s animated TV series Bubble Guppies
- Oona, Queen of the Fae, from the Shadowmoor block of collectible card game Magic: The Gathering
- Oona, a character in the movie Timer
- Oona, the pixie in the movie Legend
- Oona (or Oonagh), wife of Finvarra or Fionn mac Cumhaill and queen of the fairies in the mythology of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man
- Fairy Queen in Irish folklore
- Two characters in Michael Moorcock's fantasy novels, Oona von Bek, the daughter of Elric of Melnibone and Oonagh von Bek, Elric's granddaughter
- Oona, the mother of the protagonist in The Flight Before Christmas (2008)
- Lady Una, a fairy character in Neil Gaiman's Stardust
- Lady Oonagh, a bad stepmother character in Juliet Marillier's Daughter of the Forest, (Part I of the Sevenwaters Series)
- Oonagh O'Dwyer, an Irish woman who first appears in Dorothy Dunnett's historical novel , second of the Lymond Chronicles.
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Categories:
- Given names
- English-language feminine given names
- Irish feminine given names