Rona (first name)
Rona ( Hebrew : רוֹנָה) is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The Hebrew name is the feminine form of the Hebrew male name Ron (רוֹן), which means song / joy . Variants are Ronen (male) and Ronit (female).
In English the name is a variant of Rhonda . This is possibly derived from the name of the Hebridean island Rona , which means rough island in Gaelic .
Well-known namesake
- Rona Anderson (1926-2013), British actress
- Ellen Rona Barkin (* 1954) American actress
- Rona Jaffe (1931–2005), American bestselling author
- Rona Nishliu (* 1986), Albanian and Kosovar singer and radio presenter
- Rona Özkan (* 1994), German actress