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.
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Pronunciation | /ˈdʒoʊnə/ |
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Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Word/name | Hebrew |
Meaning | Dove; Pigeon |
Other names | |
Related names | Giona, Jonas, Yunus |
Jonah in other languages
edit- Arabic: يونس (Yūnus), يونان (Yūnān)
- Albanian: Jonah
- Amharic: ዮናስ (Yonasi)
- Armenian: ջոնա (Jona)
- Azerbaijani: Yunis
- Bengali: দুর্ভাগ্যআনয়নকারী (Durbhāgya ānaẏanakārī)
- Bulgarian: Иона (Ĭona)
- Burmese: ဇော်-(Jaw)
- Chinese Simplified: 约拿 (Yuēná)
- Chinese Traditional: 約拿 (Yuēná)
- Croatian: Jona
- Czech: Jonáš
- Danish: Jonah
- Dutch: Jona
- English: Jonah
- Esperanto: Jonah
- Estonian: Joonas
- Filipino: Jonah
- Finnish: Jonah
- French: Jonah
- German: Jona
- Georgian: იონა (Iona)
- Greek: Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs)
- Gujarati: જોનાહ (Jōnāha)
- Hebrew: יוֹנָה
- Hindi: जोनाह (Jonaah)
- Hungarian: Jónás
- Icelandic: jona
- Indonesian: Jonah, Yunus
- Irish: Jonah
- Italian: Jonah
- Japanese: ジョナ (Jona)
- Javanese: Jonah, Yunus
- Kannada: ಜೋನಾ (Jōnā)
- Kazakh: жүнә
- Korean: 요나 (Yona)
- Kurdish: Jonah
- Lao: Jonah
- Latin: Ionas
- Latvian: Jona
- Lithuanian: Jonai
- Macedonian: onона (onona)
- Malagasy: Jona
- Malay: Yunus
- Malayalam: ജോനാ (Jēānā)
- Marathi: जोना (Jonaah)
- Mongolian: жонни (Jonni)
- Nepali: जोनाः (Jonaah)
- Norwegian: Jonah
- Persian: یونس
- Polish: Jonasz
- Portuguese: Jonah
- Punjabi: ਜੋਨਾਹ (Jōnāha)
- Romanian: Jonah
- Russian: Иона (Iona)
- Serbian: јонах (Jonah)
- Slovenian: Jona
- Spanish: Jonás
- Sundanese: Jonah
- Swedish: Jonah
- Tamil: ஜோனா (Jōṉā)
- Telugu: జోనా (Jōnā)
- Thai: โยนาห์ (Yonāh̄̒)
- Turkish: Yunus
- Ukrainian: йона (ĭona)
- Urdu: جونہ
- Uzbek: Yunus
- Vietnamese: tháng ba
- Welsh: Jonah
People
edit- 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 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 Piikoi, Hawaiian nobleman and politician
- Jonah Raskin, American writer
- Jonah Ray, American comedian
- Jonah Rockoff, American economist
- Jonah Sanford, American politician and Union Army colonel
- Jonah Savaiinaea, American football player
- Jonah Sharp, American electronic music producer
- Jonah Sithole, Zimbabwean guitarist
- Jonah Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jonah Wise, American rabbi
- Jonah Yano, Canadian musician
Fictional characters
edit- 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
Male variants
edit- 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)