Una
From Latin, carrying the double sense of "one" and "lamb". Only about two dozen women in Poland use it, so most Poles have never met one, and it goes exclusively to girls.
Una Pronunciation
Una is pronounced OO-nah (/ˈuna/).
What Una means
Where Una comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Una begins in Latin, where it is the feminine of unus, the number one. The plain sense of the name is a count: one, single, the only. Una comes with no diminutive and no variant.
Edmund Spenser gave Una a role in The Faerie Queene, printed in 1590, where she personifies the one true faith. The name settled well in Scandinavia, and it stays common in Iceland today. The sense of lamb attached later, borrowed from the Irish Úna rather than from Latin.
On a Polish class register Una takes one line and needs no diminutive. There is nothing to shorten. The name arrives already whole. Whatever the setting, the Latin count sits underneath: una, one.
How many people are named Una
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Una. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9183 among female names.
Una's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Una is most popular
Una is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 girls born+510%
Una as a middle name
Una is a first name for 23 women in Poland and a middle name for another 12, a 66/34 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2217th, between Tulia (12) and Valérie (12).
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#2215 Trinity12
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#2216 Tulia12
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#2217 Una12
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#2218 Valérie12
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#2219 Varvara12