Gender Masculine & Feminine
Scripts יוֹנָה(Hebrew)

Meaning & History

Hebrew form of Jonah. It is a unisex name in modern Hebrew.

Related Names

Rootyona
VariantYonah(Hebrew)
Feminine FormsYonina, Yonit(Hebrew)
Other Languages & CulturesYonas(Amharic) Younis, Yunus(Arabic) Younes(Arabic (Maghrebi)) Yunis(Azerbaijani) Jonah, Jonas(Biblical) Ionas(Biblical Greek) Iona, Ionas(Biblical Latin) Jonáš(Czech) Jonas(Danish) Jonas(Dutch) Jonah(English) Joonas(Estonian) Jónas(Faroese) Joona, Joonas(Finnish) Jonas(French) Iona(Georgian) Jonas(German) 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)
User SubmissionsYona, Yoná

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Sources & References

  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry h3124, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=h3124.
Entry updated October 6, 2024