Yasir
given name · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yasir is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Turkish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: easy. ‘Ammar bin Yasir: a sahaabi.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 206 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
135K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yaser in SY Syria, TR Türkiye, EG Egypt and 9 more and Ясер in 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●
easy. ‘Ammar bin Yasir: a sahaabi
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #68 | 68,909 | 8.3K rec. | — | listed | Yasir | 118 |
| IN India | — | 28,102 | 15K rec. | — | 43 | Yasir | 113 |
| SY Syria | #136 | 24,886 | 27K rec. | — | — | Yaser | 44 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 18,508 | 19K rec. | — | — | Yaser | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 7,245 | 3.6K rec. | — | 5 | Yasir | 91 |
| EG Egypt | #790 | 5,449 | 4.6K rec. | — | listed | Yaser | 83 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #344 | 3,283 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Yaser | 122 |
| US United States | — | 3,156 | 21K rec. | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Yasir | 206 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,659 | 2.7K rec. | — | 1 | Yaser | 91 |
| IR Iran | — | 2,631 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Yaser | 49 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 2,422 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Yasir | 41 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,874 | 2K rec. | — | 1 | Yasir | 80 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu72K30%
- Turkish45K19%
- Arabic32K13%
- Hindi21K9%
- English18K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 71,908 | 30% |
| Turkish | 45,098 | 19% |
| Arabic | 31,971 | 13% |
| Hindi | 21,238 | 9% |
| English | 18,406 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yasir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, easy, wealthy, affluent
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Colui che rende le cose più facili
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
easy; soft; mild:
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
small; little; easy
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1958 | 1 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1961 | 1 |
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1963 | 1 |
| 1964 | 5 |
| 1965 | 3 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 2 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 8 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 14 |
| 1973 | 14 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 31 |
| 1976 | 36 |
| 1977 | 26 |
| 1978 | 40 |
| 1979 | 34 |
| 1980 | 44 |
| 1981 | 56 |
| 1982 | 78 |
| 1983 | 97 |
| 1984 | 112 |
| 1985 | 102 |
| 1986 | 101 |
| 1987 | 116 |
| 1988 | 118 |
| 1989 | 155 |
| 1990 | 145 |
| 1991 | 178 |
| 1992 | 171 |
| 1993 | 219 |
| 1994 | 170 |
| 1995 | 139 |
| 1996 | 103 |
| 1997 | 71 |
| 1998 | 59 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 6 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 61 years between 1920–2015. 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. 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. 1997ESnot in their usual namePalestinian 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,425 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1K | #2,796 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 885 | #1,383 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 763 | #2,057 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 732 | #1,978 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 625 | #830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 483 | #47,351 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 462 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 235 | #3,157 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 219 | #15,496 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 219 | #15,435 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 218 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 518 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yasir?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Yasir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yasir have the most bearers?
- Yasir is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled yasir.
- How common is Yasir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Yasir is the 68th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
- Is Yasir a male or female name?
- Yasir 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 Yasir mean?
- Recorded meaning: easy. ‘Ammar bin Yasir: a sahaabi
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About this data
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 page Mondonomo, “Yasir” — the 68th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.