Riona
Riona is a girl name of Irish origin, meaning Queenly.
What Riona means
Queenly.
Riona sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Riona comes from
Irish names come from the Gaelic tradition, and most of the familiar spellings are anglicisations of older forms. The original often looks nothing like the version in common use today.
Riona is recorded as Irish in origin. Browse other Irish names.
How popular is Riona?
Riona sits outside the top 100 girl names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Riona
We group Riona under royalty and rule. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Royal
Names like Riona
These share Riona's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Aine — Radiance; queen of the fairies.
- Maeve — She who intoxicates; queen.
- Orla — Golden princess.
- Orlaith — Golden princess.
- Rian — Little king.
- Rory — Red king.
- Ruairi — Red king.
- Brendan — Prince; little raven.
- Conn — Chief; high one.
- Tiernan — Little lord.
- Charlotte — Free; petite and feminine.
- Eleanor — Shining light.