Iona

[lakehouse]

What are your thoughts on Iona for a girl?

Lovely island, lovely name. Feisty imo!!

It’s my name so I think it’s fabulous.
There aren’t too many of us and I often get complimented on my name.

Beautiful but needs to work with the surname!

We intended to use it but for some inexplicable reason I went a little of it in pregnancy having loved it for years. I still like it though and it stayed top of DH’s list.

Aww thank you- all positive so far. I'm a fan!

Love it!!

Gorgeous name.

Lovely.

Depends on pronunciation- Welsh Yona i love, eye-ona not so much! But not my choice

Lovely

Like it

One of my fav names. Unfortunately someone put me off by saying 'I own her'

Lovely.

I like it, but as PP said it has to work as a surname. I wouldn’t use it if your surname was Carr or Twatt, put it that way...

I like it, but for some reason I think it would only suit someone who was likely to grow up to be tall.

Love it, doesn’t work with our surname unfortunately or it would have been on my list.

It's lovely.

Excellent, looks like I have a winner (as long as she is tall!)

As long as your surname isn't Wood.

What’s wrong with Iona Wood?

Iona Carr I can understand as having potential to be teased, or Iona Gunn or whatever...but Iona Wood is fine?

I have had a handful of people over my 43 years say, “What do you own? hahahaa.” But the face has put them back in their place with their lame-arsed attempt at pisstaking. Most people by far tell me I have a great name.

I really like it. It’s in my top 10 list of girls name if I ever have a daughter

My surname isn't a noun so hopefully that's ok!

I know a toddler with this name but every time her Mum says it it sounds to me ‘I own her’ I can’t get past that and it makes the name sound ugly to me.

I never thought of that actually. I’m Scottish and live in Scotland so it’s always pronounced correctly. It’s possibly not a great name for certain accents to say.

Haha about the tall comments because I’ve met two Iona’s and both of them are over 6 foot!