# Jonah (given name)

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)
* 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: 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
* 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 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

* 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)