Family name Yona (Yona 
, Йона 
, יונה , and others...) , throughout the world, is a common surname. The cognomen Yona is habitual in Bulgaria, where it is quite a common surname, Tanzania, and Israel. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Tanzania, Bulgaria, and Indonesia. Likewise, Yona is the forename as well as the last name.
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| Yona | Tanzania, India, Israel, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Йона | Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria |
| יונה | Israel |
| يونا | Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia |
| ヨナ | Japan |
| yona hohol Polish bishop (b. 1505) |
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yona fischer Belgian Jewish jeweler and Zionist activist (1871-1929), PL (b. 1871) |
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yona ettlinger Israeli classical clarinetist, DE (b. 1924) |
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| yona mandeltort Victim of the Holocaust, PL (b. 1880) |
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| yona shvartzberg Victim of the Holocaust, PL (b. 1899) |
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| yona peltzman Victim of the Holocaust, UA (b. 1901) |
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yona kim (b. 1950) |
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| yona falik Victim of the Holocaust, PL (b. 1922) |
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| yona friedman Hungarian-born French architect, HU (b. 1923) |
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| yona lotan Lithuanian painter, LT (b. 1926) |
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| yona okoth (b. 1926) |
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| yona malachy (b. 1930) |
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| daniel yona Tanzanian politician, TZ (b. 1941) |
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| yona gur (b. 1946) |
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| yona dureau Canadian writer, CA (b. 1961) |
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