Name: Iona
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Iona, of norse origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Iona are in general originating from Greece, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Iona is: Island, Violet.
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Numerology of the first name Iona: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Iona is ranked on the 6,925th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 40200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Iona has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Iona for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Iona is a unisex name that is taken from the Scottish island of Iona, which has a particular significance in the history of Christianity. The derivation of this island name itself is uncertain. The earliest forms of the name enabled place-name scholar William J. Watson to state that the name originally meant something like "yew-place". However, other suggestions such as an Norse origin from Hiōe meaning "island of the den of the brown bear" have also been made. Other possibly meanings are "Violet" from the English name Ione, or simply Island, from Norse ey.
Iona is also the Russian form of the male name Jonah.
In the United States, Iona has not appeared in the Social Security Administration's list of 1,000 most popular baby names in the last 12 years.
Scottish and English: from the name of the tiny island in the Hebrides, off the west coast of Mull, where in 563 St Columba founded a monastery that became an important early centre of Christianity. It is said to result from a misreading of the Latin form of the island's name, Ioua, as Iona. Its Gaelic name is Ì, from Old Norse ey island. The given name is most common in Scotland, but is also used elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
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18 June 2015
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