Originally a Latinization of Kleone, this name is sometimes understood as a feminine form of Cleon in the English-speaking world.In Greek mythology, Cleona (or Kleone) was the Naiad Nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the town of Kleonai (Cleonae) in Argos-Sikyonia, southern Greece. She was a daughter of the river-god Asopos.