Yassin
Masculine
Yassin is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,156 boys against 13 girls since 1880.
Ya Sin is the pair of letters that opens sura 36, and nobody knows what they mean — the Qur'an gives no explanation.
How old is the name Yassin?
Yassin first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Yassin is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Yassin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yassin most popular?
Yassin peaked in 2013, reaching #1964 nationally. Today it ranks #2718, 754 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
Where it comes from
From Ya Sin to Yassin
The story of Yassin
Twenty-nine suras begin with sequences of isolated Arabic letters — alif lam mim, ya sin, ha mim — whose meaning has never been established; commentators have proposed abbreviations, divine names and letters known only to God. Sura 36 is called Ya Sin and is much recited. The name is in current American use.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Ya and Sin are two Arabic letters opening sura 36; the muqatta'at, or disconnected letters, appear at the start of twenty-nine suras and their meaning is genuinely unknown. Classical commentators offered many readings and none is established. The name is documented; the meaning is not.
How the name formed
- Ya Sin
- Yassin
Related forms: يس · Yasin · Yasin
Pronouncing Yassin
yah-SEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Arabic says the two letters as ya seen.
Nicknames for Yassin
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
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 201370 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1964reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −2.1%47 in 2025, from 48
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.
Yassin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- يس in Arabic — transliteration
- Yasin in English — spelling variant
- Yasin in Turkish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, New Jersey.
Yassins among us
people named Yassin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 36,342 born in 2025 was named Yassin
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 Amer test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yassin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Amer climbed just as high around 1997, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Amer's path sketches the road Yassin is walking now.
Yassin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yassin is headed
Yassin 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.
Yassin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yassin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That twenty-nine suras open with letters nobody can explain is a first-rate fact.
- Sura 36 is among the most-recited in the Qur'an.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- The meaning is genuinely unknown and always has been.
- The Sin ending collides with an English noun.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yassins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Yassin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yassin in 2025?
- Yassin ranks #2718 among US boy names in 2025, with 47 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yassin?
- About 1 in every 36,342 US boys born in 2025 was named Yassin — 47 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yassin with classmates?
- Yassin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yassin
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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