Iona (first name)
Iona is a given name that is based on the island of the same name in the Inner Hebrides between Ireland and Scotland and means "the protected". Therefore, Iona is mainly used as a female name in Ireland, Scotland and English-speaking countries. Iona or in spelling Iòna is also occasionally used as a male first name.
In addition, the name can be found in Albanian, Ancient Roman, Italian, Romanian, and New and Ancient Greek. In Greek, Iona also means "purple jewel".
Individual evidence
-
↑ Beate Varnhorn: The large lexicon of first names , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07694-4 , p. 76
( limited preview in Google book search) - ^ First name: Iona . In: Namepedia , accessed November 4, 2015.