Yasin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Qur'anic opening letters Ya-Sin; used as a name
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 43 countries
/jas̪in̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yasin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Syria it is the 71st most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 491(measured from records)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 2.2K
- JOJordan≈1 in 289as Yazan
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 Yasin 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.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- 1 in 491 (inferred from the name graph)
166,938 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Yacine in FR France, DZ Algeria and Yazan in SY Syria, JO Jordan.
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)Qur'anic opening letters Ya-Sin; used as a name
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yasin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #125 | 166,938 | 1 in 491 | 167K | Yasin | 147 |
| DZ Algeria | #75 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 542 | listed | Yacine | 66 |
| JO Jordan | #137 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 289 | — | Yazan | 114 |
| SY Syria | #71 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Yazan | 42 |
| FR France | #449 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 22K | Yacine | 301 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #474 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 197 | Yasin | 28 |
166,938 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)Yasin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Arabic letters ya and si, the opening letters of the thirty-sixth sura of the Qur‘an.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Turkish, The 36th sura of the Qur'an.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, Kur'an surelerinden biri.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Yasin är den turkiska formen av det arabiska namnet → Yassin.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Yasin Hashimib. 1882IQ4th and 17th prime minister of Iraq (1884–1937)
- Yasin Saeed Nomanb. 1947YEYemen politician
- Yasin Özdenakb. 1948TRTurkish association football player (born 1948)
- Yasin Malikb. 1966INKashmiri separatist leader (born 1966)
- Yasin Aktayb. 1966TRTurkish sociologist and statesperson (born 1966)
- Yasin Öztekinb. 1987DETurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Yasin Pehlivanb. 1989TRTurkish-Austrian association football player (born 1989)
- Yasin El Harroukb. 1991DEGerman actor
- Yasin Ayarib. 2003SESwedish association football player (born 2003)
- Yasin Özcanb. 2006TRTurkish association football player (born 2006)
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)89 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 43 countries.
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Yasin mean, and where does it come from?
- Qur'anic opening letters Ya-Sin; used as a name Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Yasin?
- A machine transcription gives /jas̪in̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Yasin a male or female name?
- Yasin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), France (INSEE, 2024), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Norway (SSB), among others.
- In which country does Yasin have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 167 thousand people named Yasin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yasin.
- Where is Yasin most common?
- Yasin is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 491 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Yasin?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 166,938 people named Yasin in 2025, about 1 in 491 residents.
- How common is Yasin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yasin is the 125th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yasin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yasinThe 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, “Yasin” — the 125th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.