Comments for the name Jonas (2)

Comments for JONAS (2):

Jonas is the name of the main character in Lois Lowry's "The Giver." It's a strong, intelligent, and not-to-common moniker.

-- tmarie  4/12/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Jonas here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

-- _satu_  10/24/2006

Jonas Salk was a famous bearer. He discovered the cure or vaccine rather for polio in 1955.

-- thetangeinenymph  12/1/2006

Jonas Armstrong plays Robin Hood in the current BBC series :)

-- Surreal  12/23/2006

Pronounced as "Yaw-NAHS".

-- Karcoolka  6/10/2007

Jonas is also Czech and Slovak form.

-- Karcoolka  6/20/2007

My friends who just had a baby named their son Jonas. It is also the Greek form of John.

-- Anonymous User  9/17/2007

Jonas is also the Czech form.

-- Maggie_Simpson  9/24/2007

Jonas is also nickname for Jonat(h)an.

-- Maggie_Simpson  11/10/2007

Singer Sidónia Tobiášová has a son Jonas, born 2003.

-- Maggie_Simpson  12/14/2007

Jonas is also the Portuguese form of Jonah.

-- samarinezz  3/25/2008

Most popular name in Norway. Can't help wonder if this is because of our foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre.

-- neurolempicka  9/19/2008

Also used in the Netherlands. [noted -ed]

-- renee06  12/19/2008

Reminds me of the Jonas Brothers- a dreadfully horrible band.

-- Kerules  6/14/2009

Jonas is the Greek form of Jonah which is used in the New Testament.

The Hebrew form for Jonah is as follows וֹנָה

Jonas - or Jonah - was the name of the father of Jesus' disciple, Simon Peter.

-- Deborah Reyes  7/30/2009

I don't care for this name. It makes me think of the hideous Jonas Brothers.

-- bananarama  8/19/2009

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