Younan Family History
Younan Name Meaning
Arabic (Egypt Lebanon Iraq) and Assyrian/Chaldean: from a variant of the Arabic personal name Yūnān and Syriac Yōnān which among the Christians corresponds to the Biblical name Jonah (see Jonas and Muslim Yunus compare Yonan ). Arabic: variant of the ethnic name Yūnān ‘Greek’ of Persian origin ultimately derived from Greek Iōn ‘Ionian’ the tribe of Greeks with whom the Persians had first contact.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022