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Jonas

in Indiana

There are 210 people with the last name "Jonas" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Jonas 3,267
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  1. is 3,263rd most common Hazel
  2. is 3,264th most common Hoehn
  3. is 3,265th most common Hoffmann
  4. is 3,266th most common Hutcheson
  5. is 3,267th most common Jonas
  6. is 3,268th most common Keeton
  7. is 3,269th most common Kocher
  8. is 3,270th most common Lawless
  9. is 3,271st most common Mata

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Jonas

John, Robert, Joseph, Mark, James, Mary, Michael, Nancy, Andrew, Betty

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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