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Jonas

in California

There are 593 people with the last name "Jonas" in California.

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Jonas 4,402
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  1. is 4,398th most common Raney
  2. is 4,399th most common Rawlings
  3. is 4,400th most common Barnum
  4. is 4,401st most common Hanes
  5. is 4,402nd most common Jonas
  6. is 4,403rd most common Kingsley
  7. is 4,404th most common Pullen
  8. is 4,405th most common Roderick
  9. is 4,406th most common Villagran

Similar Names and Nicknames

Jonathan, Janak, Janas, Jonasson, Jonassen, Jonaitis, Jonah, Jonak, Jonason, Jonasen

Most Common First Names for Jonas

James, David, Robert, Elizabeth, Michael, Lawrence, Stephen, Jason, Jeffrey

Meaning & History

English, German, French, Jewish (Ashkenazic), Lithuanian, Czech, and Slovak (Jonáš), and Hungarian (Jónás): from a medieval personal name, which comes from the Hebrew male personal name Yona, meaning ‘dove’. In the book of the Bible which bears his name, Jonah was appointed by God to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh, but tried to flee instead to Tarshish. On the voyage to Tarshish, a great storm blew up, and Jonah was thrown overboard by his shipmates to appease God's wrath, swallowed by a great fish, and delivered by it on the shores of Nineveh. This story exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination in medieval Europe, and the personal name was a relatively common choice. The Hebrew name and its reflexes in other languages (for example Yiddish Yoyne) have been popular Jewish personal names for generations. There are also saints, martyrs, and bishops called Jonas venerated in the Orthodox Church. Ionas is found as a Greek family name.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): respelling of Yonis, with Yiddish possessive -s.

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