Fiona

Fiona is a female given name .

origin

The name Fiona comes from the Ossian poems of the Scottish author James Macpherson . He became popular through the pseudonym Fiona Macleod . Other first names made popular by the Ossian seals are Selma (actually the name of a castle) and Oskar .

Fiona is derived from the Gaelic fionn ("white, bright, blond").

variants

Fionnula, Fionnghuala (Irish)

Name bearers

Fiona Apple (* 1977), American musician
Fiona Bayne (* 1966), Scottish curler
Fiona Bennett (* 1966), British milliner
Fiona Bourke (* 1988), New Zealand rower
Fiona Coors (* 1972), German actress
Fiona Daniel (* 1987), Swiss singer and songwriter
Fiona Docherty (* 1975), New Zealand duathlete and triathlete
Fiona Dolman (born 1970), British actress
Fiona Dourif (* 1981), American actress
Fiona Elliott (* 1963), English badminton player
Fiona Erdmann (* 1988), German model
Fiona Ferro (* 1997), French tennis player
Fiona Flanagan (* 1961), American singer and actress
Fiona Fullerton (born 1956), British actress
Fiona Fung (* 1983), Chinese singer
Fiona Geaves (* 1967), English squash player
Fiona Gubelmann (* 1980), American actress
Fiona Hall (* 1955), British politician and member of the European Parliament
Fiona Hauser (* 1997), Austrian actress
Fiona Hefti (* 1980), Miss Switzerland from 2004
Fiona Hodgson, Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (* 1954), British entrepreneur, human rights activist and politician
Fiona-Elizabeth Hughes (* 1990), British cross-country skier
Fiona Hutchison (* 1960), British-American actress
Fiona Hyslop (* 1964), Scottish politician
Fiona Kelly (* 1959), British writer
Fiona Leggate (* 1980), British racing driver
Fiona Lorenz (1962–2014), German-British social scientist
Fiona MacDonald (* 1974), Scottish curler
Fiona May (* 1969), Italian long jumper
Fiona McKee (* 1985), Canadian badminton player
Fiona McLeod (* 1957), Scottish politician
Fiona O'Donnell (* 1960), Scottish politician
Fiona O'Malley (* 1968), Irish politician
Fiona O'Shaughnessy Irish actress
Fiona O'Sullivan (* 1986), Irish football player
Fiona Patton (* 1962), Canadian author
Fiona Pitt-Kethley (* 1954), British poet, journalist, travel and erotic writer
Fiona Raby (* 1963), British artist
Fiona Rolfs (* 1990), German soccer player
Fiona Shackleton, Baroness Shackleton of Belgravia (* 1956), British lawyer
Fiona Shaw (born 1958), Irish actress
Fiona Sneddon (* 1981), Scottish badminton player
Fiona Swarovski (* 1965), heiress of the Swarovski Group
Fiona Tan (* 1966), Indonesian photographer, filmmaker and video artist of Chinese-Australian origin

Animals

Fiona (Hippo) (* 2017), Hippo in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b A concise dictionary of first names , Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-860094-1
↑ ^a ^b Rosa Kohlheim, Duden - The large first name dictionary , Dudenverlag, Mannheim, 1998, ISBN 3-411-06081-6

Web links

Wiktionary: Fiona - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[ox-1] A ^b A concise dictionary of first names , Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-860094-1

[dud-2] Rosa Kohlheim, Duden - The large first name dictionary , Dudenverlag, Mannheim, 1998, ISBN 3-411-06081-6