Fiona
Top 1000
About Fiona
Fiona entered the American consciousness with the opening of the 1954 Broadway musical Brigadoon, but didn't come onto the U.S. popularity list until 1990.
Fiona is the best known of a group of related Gaelic names, which is ironic because it's the only one without genuine traditional roots — it was found first in James Macpherson's Ossianic poems and then popularized in the late nineteenth century as a feminine pseudonym for William Sharp, a Scottish male writer. Some researchers believe that Fiona Macleod was Sharp's identity as a trans woman.
Its recent spike in popularity owes much to singer Fiona Apple and also possibly to Princess Fiona in Shrek. In fact, there have been numerous Fionas on the big and small screens, from The Thorn Birds to Josie and the Pussycats, Four Weddings and a Funeral to Nurse Jackie to Shameless.
Jennie Garth and Chad Lowe have daughters named Fiona. It's also Julia Roberts' middle name.
If you're looking for something more authentic, consider Fionnuala.
Pronounced fee-AH-nuh.
As of October 2026, Fiona ranked #470 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #180 in 2017, Nameberry popularity #257.
Editor's take: The name Fiona is a girl's name of Gaelic, Scottish origin meaning "white, fair".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #204 | 1,647 | 922 |
| 2015 | #219 | 1,495 | 837.5 |
| 2016 | #211 | 1,560 | 880.4 |
| 2017 | #180 | 1,683 | 974.8 |
| 2018 | #223 | 1,414 | 831.2 |
| 2019 | #265 | 1,250 | 744.8 |
| 2020 | #294 | 1,088 | 673 |
| 2021 | #299 | 1,072 | 653.3 |
| 2022 | #359 | 881 | 537.2 |
| 2023 | #400 | 766 | 477.4 |
| 2024 | #406 | 782 | 482.7 |
| 2025 | #470 | 654 | 406.9 |
World rankings
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Fiona on lists
Famous Fionas
- Fiona Apple (McAfee Maggart)
American singer,songwriter
- Fiona Mary Shaw
Irish actress
- Fiona Victoria Gubelmann
American actress
- Fiona May Iapichino
Italian Olympic long jumper
- Fiona Sit
Hong Kong pop singer
- Fiona Nash
Australian politician
- Fiona Rae
British painter
- Fiona Dourif
American actress
- Fiona Xie
Singaporean actress and TV presenter
- Fiona O'Carroll
Irish actress
- Fiona Elizabeth Bruce
British TV journalist
- Fiona Eve Facinelli (b. 2006)
daughter of actors Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli
- Fiona Luna (b. 2010)
daughter of actors Diego Luna and Camila Sodi
- Fiona Leigh Pudi (b. 2012)
daughter of actor Danny Pudi
- Fiona Hepler Lowe (b. 2012)
daughter of actors Chad Lowe and Kim Painter
Fiona in pop culture
- Princess Fiona
character in the "Shrek" series
- Fiona Gallagher
main character on TV's "Shameless"
- Fiona Celestine Arabella Coyne
character on "Degrassi: The Next Generation"
- "Fred and Fiona
" animated series
- Fiona "Fi" Glenanne
character on TV's "Burn Notice"
- Fiona
character in Lois Lowry's The Giver
- Fiona Belli
main character of the game Haunting Ground
- Fiona Phillips
main character on TV's "So Weird"
- Fiona
character from Roger Zelazny's Amber series
- Fiona Lee
character in The Blurred Man by Anthony Horowitz
- Fiona Goode
character in"American Horror Story: Coven"
- Fiona Peyton
daughter on TV's "Nurse Jackie"
- Fiona "Fee" Cleary
character in The Thorne Birds
- Fiona Waters
character in "From The Files of Madison Finn"
- Fiona Frauenfeld
character from the "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series
- Fiona McIrish
character from the "Sims" series
- Fiona Widdershins
character in A Series of Unfotunate Events: The Grim Grotto
- Fiona
"The Black Fairy" on TV's "Once Upon a Time"
- Fiona Maye
High Court judge in the "The Children Act"