Fiona
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Fiona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origins. It means white or fair, while the Irish name Fíona means 'of wine', being the genitive of 'wine'. It was first used by the Scottish writer James Macpherson in his Ossianic poems. Initially, the name was confined to Scotland but later it gained popularity in other countries, such as Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and Canada.
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- Given name.name
- Fiona
- Given name.gender
- Feminine
- Given name.region
- Ireland and Scotland
- Given name.language
- English
- Given name.languageorigin
- Gaelic
- Given name.derivation
- fionn
- Given name.meaning
- White and fair
- Given name.related names
- Fionnghal, Fíona, Gwen, Gwenn, Wynne
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- Instance of
- female given name
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- native label
- Fiona
- language of work or name
- Dutch
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- F500
- Cologne phonetics
- 36
- Caverphone
- FN1111
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- Fiona (given name)
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- Wiktionary
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Fiona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origins. It means white or fair, while the Irish name Fíona means 'of wine', being the genitive of 'wine'. It was first used by the Scottish writer James Macpherson in his Ossianic poems. Initially, the name was confined to Scotland but later it gained popularity in other countries, such as Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and Canada.
==Etymology== Fiona originates from the Gaelic word , meaning white or fair, being a Romantic Era Latinised form; or an Anglicisation of the Irish name Fíona (Scotland Fìona) meaning 'of wine', being the genitive of (Scotland ) 'wine', from which is also derived the terms (Irish) , (Irish, Scottish) ( 'tree'), and (Scottish) ( 'tree, bush') 'grape-vine'. An alternative suggested by Hanks (2006) is that Fíona means vine. In ninth-century Welsh and Breton language Fion (today: ffion) referred to the foxglove species and is also a female given name as in Ffion Hague.
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