Meaning, Origin And History Of The Name Jonah

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Jonah NamePopularityRelated NamesRelatedRatingsCommentsNamesakes 76%Ratingadd to your listSave Gender Masculine Usage English, Biblical Scripts יוֹנָה(Ancient Hebrew) Pronounced Pron. /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.nə/(English) [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

From the Hebrew name יוֹנָה (Yona) meaning "dove". This was the name of a prophet swallowed by a fish, as told in the Old Testament Book of Jonah. Jonah was commanded by God to preach in Nineveh, but instead fled by boat. After being caught in a storm, the other sailors threw Jonah overboard, at which point he was swallowed. He emerged from the fish alive and repentant three days later.Jonah's story was popular in the Middle Ages, and the Hellenized form Jonas was occasionally used in England. The form Jonah did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation.

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Family Tree·Details RootyonaOther Languages & CulturesYonas(Amharic) Younis, Yunus(Arabic) Younes(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Yunis(Azerbaijani) Ionas(Biblical Greek) Yona(Biblical Hebrew) Iona, Ionas(Biblical Latin) Jonáš(Czech) Jonas(Danish) Jonas(Dutch) Joonas(Estonian) Jónas(Faroese) Joona, Joonas(Finnish) Jonas(French) Iona(Georgian) Jonas(German) Yona, Yonah(Hebrew) Jónás(Hungarian) Jónas(Icelandic) Yunus(Indonesian) Giona(Italian) Yunus(Malay) Jonas(Norwegian) Younes(Persian) Jonasz(Polish) Iona(Russian) Jonáš(Slovak) Jonás(Spanish) Jonas(Swedish) Yonas(Tigrinya) Yunus(Turkish) Younus(Urdu)

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Details Last ranked #145 in 2024 England and Wales Last ranked #468 in 2024 France Last ranked #52 in 2022 Germany (Berlin) Last ranked #128 in 2024 Netherlands Last ranked #44 in 2023 Northern Ireland Last ranked #126 in 2024 United States

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Jonah Leaving the Whale by Jan Brueghel the Elder (c. 1600)Jonah Leaving the Whale by Jan Brueghel the Elder (c. 1600)

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