Name profile

Una

A name of Ireland origin meaning "one".

OriginIreland
Usage languagesEnglish, Irish
US rank (2025)#3,211

Meaning and history

Úna is the anglicized form of the Irish Úna or Scottish Ùna and is also associated with the Latin una, the feminine form of unus meaning “one.” The name appears in Edmund Spenser’s poem The Faerie Queene (1590).

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 26 births, rank #5,233
2007: 39 births, rank #3,983
2008: 38 births, rank #4,089
2009: 32 births, rank #4,571
2010: 26 births, rank #5,247
20112011: 34 births, rank #4,244
2012: 33 births, rank #4,387
2013: 40 births, rank #3,778
2014: 45 births, rank #3,486
2015: 45 births, rank #3,478
20162016: 60 births, rank #2,829
2017: 46 births, rank #3,387
2018: 53 births, rank #3,050
2019: 59 births, rank #2,814
2020: 62 births, rank #2,682
20212021: 48 births, rank #3,297
2022: 63 births, rank #2,720
2023: 48 births, rank #3,329
2024: 55 births, rank #2,976
20252025: 49 births, rank #3,211

Una moved from #725 to #941 for girls between 1940 and 1941. Its highest annual birth count came in 1921, with 217 births.