Yeshua vs. Eshua

[Paul Younan]

I'm certainly no linguist, but had never heard of "Younan" being connect to Yona as a last name.

It doesn't take a linguist to read the Peshitta OT for the book of Yona and find out how it was spelled back then (YWNN). Also in the Aramaic Gospels.

younan:
Turkish, Iranian, and Muslim generally: ethnic name for a Greek. It is ultimately derived from Greek Ion ???Ionian???, the tribe of Greeks with whom the Persians had first contact. This term was subsequently borrowed into Hebrew and Arabic, and later came to be used in the Muslim world at large to denote a Greek.

In Aramaic the word for a "Greek person" is Yonaia (also from 'Ionian'), as the word for Jew is "Yehudaia".

I'm sure you're aware that Aramaic has nothing to do with Turkish, Iranian ....and Muslim generally. Although here's a little factoid for you: Muslims calls the Prophet Yona "Yunis", see they append an S to the name as we in Aramaic append an N.

The reason being is that "Yona" in Aramaic, like in Hebrew, means "dove". However in Aramaic it is grammatically feminine, therefore it is improper to give a man this name.