Entry № 7817 · Irish origin

Oona Oona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Lamb / unity (Oona O'Neill Chaplin; Oona Laurence actress)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "lamb / unity (oona o'neill chaplin; oona laurence actress)".

Oona is the anglicized Irish spelling of Úna — from the Old Irish uan ("lamb") or possibly the Latin una ("unity, oneness"). A revival vintage name with deep Irish heritage. Doctor Who (Avatar: The Way of Water sequels). Saint Una / Oona — early Irish saint. Una Stubbs — English actress (different spelling).

Lamb / unity.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Oona stands.

Oona 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.

Oonas before her.

Real people
Oona O'Neill Chaplin
Wife of Charlie Chaplin.
1925 – 1991
Oona Chaplin
Spanish-Chilean actress.
born 1986
Oona Laurence
American actress.
born 2002
In fiction
Oonagh
Irish mythology queen.

Names connected to Oona.

The number behind Oona.

9

The Giver

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