Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yaser is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık.
rarermore common
SYSyria1 in 1.3K◐
PKPakistan1 in 2.7K
JOJordan1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
≈5.5K ●
across 6 countries
2 ●
recorded for this name
Sources
206 ●
135K records
Official registry-verified
1 in 13K ◐
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
YasirLatin · Urdu●72K records
ЯсерCyrillic · Russian●647 records
Locally spelled Yasirin PK Pakistan, IN India, US United States and 13 more and Ясерin RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
recorded in Turkish
Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık.
Sources 1
TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Related names2 related names◐
The same name elsewhere
2
Forms of one name across languages
Yaser
Relations come from the etymology graph; the language, country and size beside each name are how that name is actually used in the corpus. Click any name to open it.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Arabic42K45%
Turkish15K16%
English6.8K7%
Spanish4.7K5%
German2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Arabic
41,888
45%
Turkish
14,799
16%
English
6,834
7%
Spanish
4,713
5%
German
2,046
2%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Yaser is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
a separate given name777 records spelled Yaser3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Iran, India, United Kingdom
Also written Ýàser, Yaşer
Bulgarian given name525 records spelled Yaser23 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Spain, Bulgaria, Syria, Türkiye
Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian
Also written Yasser, Ясер, Ŷâššêr, Yàssér, Ÿâssër
Czech given name84 records spelled Yaser5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Türkiye, Syria, Slovakia
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Ýäsěř, Ỹẩser, Ýăsĕř
31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Other recorded senses●
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 name·Förnamn 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.
Over time●
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Yaser in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2025
Year
records
1975
6
1978
5
1979
6
1980
7
1981
6
1982
8
1983
6
1985
7
1986
12
1987
8
1988
5
1989
8
1990
12
1993
5
1994
8
1995
11
1996
6
1997
12
1998
9
1999
11
2000
11
2001
12
2002
9
2003
10
2004
11
2005
10
2006
9
2007
14
2008
12
2009
10
2010
14
2011
8
2012
14
2013
12
2014
17
2015
8
2016
23
2017
15
2018
11
2019
18
2020
14
2021
12
2022
17
2023
13
2024
16
2025
18
USSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 46 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
Yasser Arafatb. 1929PSnot in their usual namePalestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
Yasir Qadhib. 1975USnot in their usual namePakistani-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
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).
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 221 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Yaser?
We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Yaser (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Yaser have the most bearers?
Yaser is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled yasir.
How common is Yaser compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Yaser is the 68th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
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 does the name Yaser mean?
Recorded meaning: Bolluk, varlık, zenginlik, varsıllık.
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 pageMondonomo, “Yaser” — the 68th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.