Jonah

Where Jonah comes from

From the Hebrew יוֹנָה (yônâh, “dove”). Doublet of Jonas.
— Wiktionary's entry for Jonah
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1975
    Jonah Lomu born
    New Zealand rugby union player
  3. 1983
    Jonah Hill born
    American actor
  4. 2023
    Peak, #124
    2,900 babies named Jonah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Jonah Hill · American actor, born 1983
  • Jonah Lomu · New Zealand rugby union player, 1975–2015
  • Jonah Hauer-King · British actor, born 1995
  • Jonah Bobo · American actor, born 1997
  • Jonah Falcon · American actor and writer, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.