FIONA  

Gender: F
Origin: Scottish
Meaning: "the fair one"

Popularity in 2008: #347

Known in the U. S. since the 1954 musical Brigadoon, this late nineteenth-century Scottish invention was given a recent spike in popularity via singer Fiona Apple. Jennie Garth has a daughter named Fiona Eve.

Variations:
Ffion, Fionn, Fee, Fyona, Fiora, Ffiona, Ffyona, Fionna, Fina, Fione

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