Jonah (given name)

Jonah

Jonah
Pronunciation	/ˈdʒoʊnə/
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	Dove; Pigeon
Other names
Related names	Giona, Jonas, Yunus, Yonah

Jonah is a masculine given name derived from the Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Yonā, meaning dove or pigeon. It is the name of the Abrahamic prophet Jonah.

Etymology

Jonah most often represents Hebrew יוֹנָה (Yōnā) meaning 'dove', the name of multiple Biblical figures.

Jonah in other languages

People

• Jonah of Hankou (1888–1925), bishop of Hankou of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
• Jonah of Moscow (died 1461), Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'
• Jonah Anguka, Kenyan author
• Jonah Ayunga, Kenyan football player
• Jonah Barrington (journalist), English journalist
• Jonah Barrington (judge), Irish judge and politician
• Jonah Barrington (squash player), English squash player
• Jonah Bayliss, American baseball player
• Jonah Berger, American marketing professor
• Jonah Blechman, American actor
• Jonah Blank, American journalist
• Jonah Bobo, American child actor
• Jonah Bokaer, American media artist
• Jonah Bolden, Australian basketball player
• Jonah Burt, Canadian judoka
• Jonah Coleman (born 2003), American football player
• Jonah David Jang, Nigerian politician
• Jonah Edelman, American advocate for public education reform
• Jonah Falcon, American actor and writer
• Jonah Feingold, American writer of short films
• Jonah Frankel, Israeli writer
• Yonah Gerondi, Catalan rabbi and moralist
• Jonah Goldberg, American conservative political commentator
• Jonah Hill, American actor and writer
• Jonah Holmes, English rugby player
• Jonah Jackson (born 1997), American football player
• Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter
• Jonah Jones (sculptor), Welsh artist
• Jonah Keri, Canadian journalist
• Jonah Kim, South Korean cellist
• Jonah Koslen, American singer-songwriter
• Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, Prince of Hawai'i and American politician
• Jonah Kumalae, Hawaiian politician and ukulele manufacturer
• Jonah Laulu (born 2000), American football player
• Jonah Lehrer, American science author and journalist
• Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
• Jonah Lowe, New Zealand rugby player
• Jonah Lotan, Israeli actor
• Jonah Matranga, American singer and songwriter
• Yona Melnik, Israeli judoka
• Jonah Meyerson, American actor
• Jonah Monheim (born 2002), American football player
• Metropolitan Jonah Paffhausen, primate of the Orthodox Church in America
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson, American saxophonist
• Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post
• Jonah Piʻikoi, Hawaiian nobleman and politician
• Jonah Raskin, American writer
• Jonah Ray, American comedian
• Jonah Rock, former ring name of Australian professional wrestler Jermaine Haley (born 1988)
• Jonah Rockoff, American economist
• Jonah Sanford, American politician and Union Army colonel
• Jonah Savaiinaea (born 2004), American football player
• Jonah Sharp, American electronic music producer
• Jonah Sithole, Zimbabwean guitarist
• Jonah Sticker (born 2004), German footballer
• Jonah Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonah Wise, American rabbi
• Jonah Yano, Canadian musician

Fictional characters

• Jonah Beck, a main character on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack
• Jonah Hex, an American western comic book hero in DC Comics
• J. Jonah Jameson, in Spider-Man comics and movies
• Jonah Marshall, a character from the analog horror series, The Mandela Catalogue
• Jonah Magnus, a character from the horror fiction anthology podcast The Magnus Archives
• Jonah Takalua, a main character in the Australian comedy series Summer Heights High
• Jonah Wizard, a teenage movie star from the 39 Clues series
• Jonah Byrde, character in Netflix TV Show Ozark
• Jonah Simms, character in TV show Superstore
• Jonah Vasquez, a survivor in the video game Dead by Daylight

Male variants

• Giona (Italian)
• Jonàs (Catalan)
• Jona (Croatian)
• Jonáš (Czech)
• Jonah (English)
• Jonas (German, Swedish, Latin, Lithuanian and Portuguese)
• Jónás (Hungarian)
• Jónas (Icelandic)
• Yunus (Indonesian)
• Jonasz (Polish)
• Jonaš (Prekmurje Slovene)
• Jonáš (Slovak)
• Jona (Slovene)
• Jonás (Spanish)
• Yonah or Yona (יונה) (Hebrew and Yiddish)
• Yunus (Turkish)
• Younes (يونس) (Arabic)
• Joonas (Estonian and Finnish)
• Joona (Finnish)
• Yunsi (Berber)
• Ionas (Ίωνας) (Greek)
• Yunis (Azerbaijani)
• Iunus (Bengali: ইউনুস)
• Jona (Yoruba)
• Yunan (Syriac)

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