Fiona

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fiona is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Jamaica it is the 49th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern name from Scottish Gaelic fìon ‘white, fair’ or as a feminine of Fionn.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 599◐
  • IEIreland1 in 627
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 887

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈203K ●

across 12 countries

#921 ●

of 21M surnames

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
498 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 851 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

GreeneLatin · English●1.3M records
ФионаCyrillic · Russian●1K records
פיונהHebrew · Hebrew●620 records
ΦιοναGreek · Greek●25 records
ฟีโอน่าThai · Thai●14 records
피오나Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Greene in US United States, CA Canada, IT Italy and 4 more, Фиона in FI Finland and Фіона in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Modern name from Scottish Gaelic fìon ‘white, fair’ or as a feminine of Fionn.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Fiona is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#362239,051168K rec.—5Fiona292
US United States#196201,1591.2M rec.1 in 1.7K201KGreene498
AU Australia#441186,697132K rec.—77Fiona264
CA Canada#26532,43427K rec.—7Greene182
IE Ireland#27615,16310K rec.—20Fiona144
NZ New Zealand#2338,5585.5K rec.—13Fiona131
DE Germany—8,2606.2K rec.——Fiona152
AT Austria—6,813420 rec.—2KFiona77
IT Italy#3485,7266.6K rec.—9Greene73
ZA South Africa—5,2685.9K rec.——Fiona100
MY Malaysia—4,2694.7K rec.——Fiona83
RU Russia—4,1534.1K rec.—#1,043Greene68

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English474K68%
  • French83K12%
  • Spanish21K3%
  • German20K3%
  • Finnish7.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English473,91768%
French82,70212%
Spanish20,7343%
German19,5993%
Finnish7,4921%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Fiona is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name123K records spelled Fiona8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fîóñā, Fíona, Fioná, Fîonä

  • Finnish given name8.9K records spelled Fiona4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United Kingdom, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Fìõnà

  • Indonesian given name8.5K records spelled Fiona5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Fiona, Fíona, Fìona

  • a separate given name5.1K records spelled Fiona2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

    Also written Fíona

  • Czech given name771 records spelled Fiona4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United Kingdom, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Fìonà, Fióna

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Fiona is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Scottish name from fionn, 'fair'; popular in Ireland and Scotland.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In French, Celtic name associated here with « blond ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, in regular use since the 20th century, first in Scotland, then in England.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, a female given name from the Goidelic languages, popular in the 1990s and the 2000s

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, D’origine gaélique; signifie « blonde ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K19601980200020201.7K · 2017

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Fiona in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1942–2025
Yearrecords
19429
194319
19447
19486
19496
19517
19525
19538
195410
19556
195610
195711
195818
195916
196020
196135
196226
196335
196444
196538
196652
196771
196850
196967
197060
197159
197269
197368
197452
197558
197656
197758
197852
197965
198063
198180
198273
198388
198468
198590
198694
1987109
1988131
1989159
1990204
1991220
1992180
1993196
1994210
1995252
1996375
1997459
1998485
1999552
2000603
2001694
2002858
2003885
2004970
2005844
2006991
2007918
2008964
20091,051
20101,265
20111,211
20121,503
20131,640
20141,648
20151,495
20161,560
20171,683
20181,414
20191,250
20201,089
20211,073
2022881
2023767
2024787
2025654

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 80 years between 1942–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Fiona Shaw, b. 1958Sayuki, b. 1961Julia Roberts, b. 1967Fiona May, b. 1969Fiona Apple, b. 1977Fiona Gubelmann, b. 1980Fiona Sit, b. 1981Fiona Dourif, b. 1981Fiona Glascott, b. 1982Xochitl Gomez, b. 2006
  • Fiona Shawb. 1958IEIrish actress (born 1958)
  • Sayukib. 1961AUnot in their usual nameAustralian anthropologist, geisha (1961–2023)
  • Julia Robertsb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1967)
  • Fiona Mayb. 1969GBBritish-born Italian long jumper
  • Fiona Appleb. 1977USAmerican musician (born 1977)
  • Fiona Gubelmannb. 1980USAmerican actress (born 1980)
  • Fiona Sitb. 1981CNHong Kong singer and actress
  • Fiona Dourifb. 1981USAmerican actress and producer (born 1981)
  • Fiona Glascottb. 1982IEIrish actress
  • Xochitl Gomezb. 2006USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 2006)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 100 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Fiona
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202032K#1,209
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202411K#2,008
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20242K#60
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.8K#1,152
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.7K#1,495
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.6K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.5K#1,299
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.4K#540
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,524
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—939#2,973
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—892#1,520
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—796#447

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Fiona?
We estimate roughly 203 thousand people bear Fiona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Fiona have the most bearers?
Fiona is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled fiona.
How common is Fiona compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Fiona is the 362nd most common surname of 1,169,970 surnames recorded there.
Is Fiona a male or female name?
Fiona is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Fiona mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern name from Scottish Gaelic fìon ‘white, fair’ or as a feminine of Fionn.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fiona” — the 362nd most common surname in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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