Yaser
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəsɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yaser is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common given name.
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 1.6K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yaser itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Yasir, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Yasir in PK Pakistan, SE Sweden, BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yaser counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #64 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 684 | listed | Yasir | 142 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #351 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Yaser | 130 |
| EG Egypt | #575 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | listed | Yaser | 87 |
| SY Syria | #151 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Yaser | 45 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Yasir | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | #316 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Yaser | 18 |
| JO Jordan | #412 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Yaser | 68 |
| SE Sweden | — | 808 | 1 in 13K | 808 | Yasir | 30 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the wgnd-eg-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yaser is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Yaser (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn, ursprungligen från ordet yser som betyder ’rikedom, bekymmerslöshet, underlättning’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yasser Arafatb. 1929PSnot in their usual namePalestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
- Yasir Qadhib. 1975USPakistani-American preacher and imam
- Yasser Al-Qahtanib. 1982SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
- Yasser Al Mosailemb. 1984SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian footballer
- Yasser Mourtajab. 1987PSnot in their usual namePalestinian video journalist and photographer from the Gaza Strip
- Yasser Abu Shababb. 1993PSnot in their usual namePalestinian militant leader in Gaza (1993–2025)
- Yasser Trikib. 1997DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian athlete
- Yaser Hamedb. 1997ESPalestinian association football player
- Yasser Laroucib. 2001DZnot in their usual nameAlgerian association football player
- Yasser Al Hadinot in their usual nameactor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 54 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 808 | #1,982 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 523 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yaser?
- A machine transcription gives /jəsɝ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Yaser mean?
- Recorded meaning: Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık.
- Is Yaser a male or female name?
- Yaser is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Yaser?
- In the etymology graph, Yasir and Yasser are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yaser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 341 thousand people named Yasir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yaser?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 808 people named Yaser, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Yaser compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Yaser is the 64th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaser?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaserThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yaser” — the 64th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.