Cliona
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Irish
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Cliona is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Cliona mean?
Irish
A female given name from Irish.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Cliona a girl's or a boy's name?
Cliona is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Cliona in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Cliona, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 31 girls.
Half of all the girls named Cliona in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 397th in Northern Ireland.
Cliona in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 11 | #2,119 |
| 2005 | 13 | #1,807 |
| 2004 | 16 | #1,488 |
| 2003 | 13 | #1,649 |
| 2002 | 30 | #867 |
| 2001 | 31 | #832 |
| 2000 | 25 | #954 |
| 1999 | 21 | #1,065 |
| 1998 | 17 | #1,238 |
| 1997 | 15 | #1,333 |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
Names like Cliona
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cara Keira Caoimhe Niamh Caragh Anna Fionnuala Caitlin Jessica Iona Cassidy Emma
Names related to Cliona
More Irish names
Oscar Rowan Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Cliona: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cliona, updated 20 October 2026.