Back in 1537 a Catholic theologian, Johann Eck, identified the God we all refer to as Lord or Adonai as Jehoua in his German translation of the Bible.
This might come as a surprise to many of because most of the time God is referred to simply as Lord or sometimes Adonai. But long before the time of Eck the early writers of the Hebrew Scriptures or the Old Testament used the Hebrew equivalent of Jehovah in placed like Deuteronomy 6:4.
Morever 2800 years ago Jesus Christ made God's name -- Jehovah -- known and it was recorded in the early Christian Greek Scriptures or the New Testament so Eck had good reason to include God's personal name in his German translation of the Bible.
Everybody has a name and God is no exception. Johann Eck certainly got it right, although many translation since his time have not.
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