Entry № 10925 · Latin origin

Una Una — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"One; lamb"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish/Latin)

A name that means "one; lamb".

Una has two parallel origins. In Latin, una means "one" — used as a name meaning "unity" or "the one." In Irish, Úna comes from uan, meaning "lamb." The two etymologies converge on a short, gentle name.

The name has been continuously used in Ireland and parts of Scandinavia. Today it sits outside the U.S. top 1000 but is rising slowly.

One; lamb — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Una
Transliteration
Una
Pronunciation
/ ˈuː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Una stands.

Una does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Unas before her.

Real people
Una O'Connor
Irish actress.
1880 – 1959
Una Stubbs
British actress.
1937 – 2021
In fiction
Una
Heroine of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
1590 epic

Names connected to Una.

The number behind Una.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Una reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.