Iona

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Scottish place-name

Iona Origin and Meaning

The name Iona is a girl's name of Scottish origin.

This name of a small island off the coast of Scotland is trending upwards along with other I names.

Iona Rank in US Top 1000

# 854 in the US

Iona Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 519 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Iona

• 519 Nameberry 2025
• 480 England 2023
• 85 Scotland 2024

20 Names Similar to Iona

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Famous People Named Iona

• Iona Margaret Balfour (Archibald) Opie English folklorist
• Iona Victoria Campagnolo Canadian politician; 27th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• (Elizabeth) Iona Brown English violinist
• Iona Wynter Jamaican triathlete
• Olivia Iona Louise Langdon wife of American novelist Mark Twain
• Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir Russian male Red Army commander

The name Iona in Pop Culture

• Iona character in film "Pretty in Pink"
• Iona McNair character in 'Sky Hawk' by Gill Lewis
• Iona Payne aka Molly Dawes character on TV's "Forever"
• Iona MacLean character on British TV series "Monarch of the Glen"
• Iona Shield of Emeria, angel in Zendikar, a Magic: The Gathering expansion set
• Iona a Fog Mental Model in manga/anime Arpeggio of Blue Steel
• Hikawa Iona character in anime HappinessCharge PreCure!
• Iona in Celtic lore, one of Earth's "thin places" where the veil with heaven is worn thin. A deeply spiritual spot, inhabited since prehistoric times & always deemed sacred , long before the coming of Christianity. A testimony to this is the island's name itself: Celtic *yewo "yew"
• Iona Monastery Ireland, birthplace of the Book of Kells
• Iona College New York, USA
• Iona also a Russian variation of Jonah