Entry № 11809 · Hebrew origin

Yona Yona — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "a dove".

Yona is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning a dove.

A dove — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Yona
Transliteration
Yona
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Yona stands.

Yona 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.

Yonas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yona.

The number behind Yona.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yona reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.