Entry № 4975 · Icelandic origin

Jona Jona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"A dove"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a dove".

Jona is a name of Icelandic origin, meaning a dove, and God is gracious.

A dove — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Jona
Transliteration
Jona
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Jona stands.

Jona does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jonas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Jona.

The number behind Jona.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jona reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.