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Jonas

in Nevada

There are 84 people with the last name "Jonas" in Nevada.

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Jonas 2,714
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  1. is 2,710th most common Herrington
  2. is 2,711th most common Hooker
  3. is 2,712th most common Huston
  4. is 2,713th most common Ivey
  5. is 2,714th most common Jonas
  6. is 2,715th most common Kenny
  7. is 2,716th most common Kroll
  8. is 2,717th most common Luong
  9. is 2,718th most common Mcintire

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Jonas

Fernando, James, Patricia, Jeffrey, Thomas, Amy, Dennis, Donald, Geneva

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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