Yaseen
Masculine · “Not established”
Yaseen opens the thirty-sixth chapter of the Qur'an — two Arabic letters, yā and sīn, spoken at the head of a surah that is among the most memorized and most often recited in the Muslim world. In the mouth it is two clean syllables with the weight on the second, yah-SEEN, and nothing in it that an English speaker has to learn.
How old is the name Yaseen?
Yaseen first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Yaseen is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 3,300 people named Yaseen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yaseen most popular?
Yaseen peaked in 2025, reaching #1030 nationally. Today it ranks #1030, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From يس (Yā-Sīn) to Yaseen
The story of Yaseen
The name comes straight from scripture. Surah Yā-Sīn is one of the chapters Muslims most commonly commit to memory, and in many communities it is recited over the sick and the dying and at funerals — which means the sound of the name is familiar to enormous numbers of people who have never met anyone called it. From Arabic it spread with Islam into Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian, and across North Africa, where French spelling conventions produced the widespread form Yassine. In the United States the name has been on record for several decades, and its wave here is recent: it arrived and grew with Muslim families from a great many different countries, which is why so many spellings of it circulate side by side.
Meaningnot established
Not established — the name is two Arabic letters, yā and sīn, read aloud as a word
Yā-Sīn belongs to the muqatta'at, the disconnected letters that open several chapters of the Qur'an, and classical Islamic scholarship generally holds their meaning to be undetermined. Individual commentators proposed readings — a vocative along the lines of 'O human', or an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad — but none became settled. What is documented is the placement: these two letters stand at the head of surah 36, which is named after them.
How the name formed
- يسYā-Sīn
- Yasin
- Yaseen
Related forms: ياسين (Yāsīn) · Yasin · Yassine · یاسین (Yaseen) · Yasin · Yassin
Pronouncing Yaseen
yah-SEEN
Stress on the second syllable. The doubled 'ee' is there to mark the long Arabic vowel, and it does that job well for English readers. In Turkish and Indonesian the spelling Yasin is read the same way.
Nicknames for Yaseen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 2025215 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1030reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +15.6%215 in 2025, from 186
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Yaseen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ياسين (Yāsīn) in Arabic — transliteration
- Yasin in Turkish — same name
- Yassine in French / North African — spelling variant
- یاسین (Yaseen) in Urdu — transliteration
- Yasin in Indonesian / Malay — same name
- Yassin in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Texas.
Yaseens among us
people named Yaseen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 7,945 born in 2025 was named Yaseen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Montez test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yaseen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Montez climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Montez's path sketches the road Yaseen is walking now.
Yaseen is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yaseen is headed
Yaseen should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Yaseen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yaseen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized instantly across Muslim communities worldwide, since the surah it names is among the most recited chapters of the Qur'an.
- Two syllables, no sounds that English lacks — most people get it right on the first try when they hear it.
- Travels intact through Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Malay, Indonesian and French-influenced North African usage.
- The 'ee' spelling tells an English reader where the long vowel goes, which the shorter Yasin does not.
- It competes with several equally legitimate spellings — Yasin, Yassin, Yassine, Yassen — so he will spend a lifetime specifying which one. Choosing the version your family already writes will save the most trouble.
- Outside Muslim communities, some Americans will confuse it with Yasmin or Jasmine, which is a wholly separate name from the Persian word for the flower. A short correction usually settles it.
- He is likely to be the only one in his school, which some children enjoy and others tire of. Worth knowing rather than worrying about.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yaseens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,300 people named Yaseen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yaseen in 2025?
- Yaseen ranks #1030 among US boy names in 2025, with 215 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yaseen?
- About 1 in every 7,945 US boys born in 2025 was named Yaseen — 215 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yaseen with classmates?
- Yaseen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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