Jonas Family History
Jonas Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Jonas Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jonas families
 109 - 216  37 - 108 |
 1 - 36  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jonas families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Jonas Family Origin
Jonas Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Jonas Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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