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.

Jonah in other languages

• Arabic: يونس (Yūnus), يونان (Yūnān)
• Albanian: Jonah
• Amharic: ዮናስ (Yonas)
• Aramaic: ܝܘܢܢ (Yōnān)
• 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: Joona
• French: Jonah
• German: Jona
• Georgian: იონა (Iona)
• Greek: Ἰωνᾶς (Iōnâs)
• Gujarati: જોનાહ (Jōnāha)
• Hebrew: יוֹנָה
• Hindi: जोनाह (Jonaah)
• Hungarian: Jónás
• Icelandic: jona
• Indonesian: Yunus, Yona, Jonas, Jonah
• Irish: Jonah
• Italian: Giona
• 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: Jona
• 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
• Somali : yoonis
• Tamil: ஜோனா (Jōṉā)
• Telugu: జోనా (Jōnā)
• Thai: โยนาห์ (Yonāh̄̒)
• Turkish: Yunus
• Ukrainian: йона (ĭona)
• Urdu: جونہ
• Uzbek: Yunus
• Vietnamese: tháng ba
• Welsh: Jonah

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 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 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)