Fiona
A Celtic name meaning "fair" or "white". Only around 160 women in Poland carry it, and no girls were given it last year, so most Poles have never met one.
Fiona Pronunciation
Fiona is pronounced FYO-nah (/ˈfjɔna/).
What Fiona means
Where Fiona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Fiona traces to a Celtic root, the Gaelic word fionn, meaning fair or white. The name reads as English now, and its fame runs through Scotland. James Macpherson's Ossian poems of the 1760s spread Gaelic names and sounds across Europe. Later the Scottish writer William Sharp took the pen name Fiona Macleod in the 1890s, and Fiona reached readers in print as a woman's name.
The meaning has held steady: fair, white. It points to brightness of hair or skin, the clear, pale quality that older Gaelic poets praised.
Fiona has no standard Polish diminutive of its own. On a Polish class register it stands alone, four letters after a longer Polish surname. That plainness is part of its appeal. The name arrived without a saint's day and without a folk tale attached, so what it keeps is the old sense of fionn: fair, white.
How many people are named Fiona
1 in 139159 women in Poland is named Fiona. 162 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2534 among female names.
Fiona's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Fiona as a middle name
Fiona is a first name for 162 women in Poland and a middle name for another 77, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 754th, between Bozena (77) and Inés (77).
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#752 Beate77
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#753 Bozena77
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#754 Fiona77
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#755 Inés77
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#756 Kiara77