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
See also
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