Younan

Younan means Greece in Arabic and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu). In Assyrian Neo-Aramaic/Syriac, Younan or Yonan translates to the English name Jonah.

Younan is also a common surname among Assyrian, Aramean and largely Christian Arab people, typically referring to the Biblical Jonah.

It may refer to:

Places

• Ionia, an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, also called Younan
• Greece, called Younan in Arabic

Persons

First name

• Younan Labib Rizk (1933–2008), Egyptian historian and literary figure
• Younan Nowzaradan, bariatric surgeon featured on television series My 600-lb Life

Family name

• Ignatius Joseph III Yonan (alternatively Younan), Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriacs for the Syriac Catholic Church
• Munib Younan (born 1950), Evangelical Lutheran Church Bishop of Palestine and Jordan in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
• Zaya Younan, Assyrian-American entrepreneur and real estate mogul
• Emad N Younan
  • Younan Properties, North American commercial real estate investment company founded by Zaya Younan