Yassin
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yassin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Yassin är ett arabiskt namn, bildat till benämningen på sura nummer 36 i Koranen.
- MAMorocco1 in 878◐
- TNTunisia1 in 2K
- EGEgypt1 in 4.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- Sources
- 190 ●
- 1 in 9.3K ◐
across 8 countries
80K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Yassin är ett arabiskt namn, bildat till benämningen på sura nummer 36 i Koranen.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 3 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #72 | 17,493 | 18K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 80 |
| EG Egypt | #590 | 8,022 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 109 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 7,078 | 1.3K rec. | — | 1.2K | Yassin | 44 |
| FR France | — | 5,540△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 12K | 5.5K | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,636 | 5K rec. | 1 in 11K | 4.6K | Yassin | 73 |
| SY Syria | — | 3,353 | 5.8K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 33 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,806 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 111 |
| TN Tunisia | #191 | 1,989 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 37 |
| DZ Algeria | #311 | 1,502 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 30 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1,354 | 1.4K rec. | — | 34 | Yassin | 57 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,282 | 4.5K rec. | — | — | Yassin | 48 |
| US United States | — | 1,197 | 14K rec. | 1 in 278K | 1.5K | Yassin | 190 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French43K30%
- Arabic40K28%
- Spanish17K12%
- English7.3K5%
- Catalan4.6K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 42,879 | 30% |
| Arabic | 40,409 | 28% |
| Spanish | 16,960 | 12% |
| English | 7,348 | 5% |
| Catalan | 4,636 | 3% |
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●
Yassin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Qur'anic chapter name; from ya-sin
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In German, männl. Vom. arabischer Herkunft, der aus den Anfangsbuchstaben (yä und sw) der
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 5 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 18 |
| 2001 | 15 |
| 2002 | 23 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 34 |
| 2005 | 25 |
| 2006 | 25 |
| 2007 | 35 |
| 2008 | 34 |
| 2009 | 46 |
| 2010 | 46 |
| 2011 | 50 |
| 2012 | 59 |
| 2013 | 70 |
| 2014 | 66 |
| 2015 | 55 |
| 2016 | 64 |
| 2017 | 50 |
| 2018 | 47 |
| 2019 | 56 |
| 2020 | 32 |
| 2021 | 36 |
| 2022 | 38 |
| 2023 | 45 |
| 2024 | 48 |
| 2025 | 47 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 36 years between 1988–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yasin Hashimib. 1882IQnot in their usual name4th and 17th prime minister of Iraq (1884–1937)
- Yassin al-Haj Salehb. 1961SYSyrian writer and political dissident
- Yassin Adnanb. 1970MAMoroccan writer and broadcaster (born 1970)
- Yaseen Musab. 1980QAnot in their usual nameQatari basketball player (born 1980)
- Yassin Kamelb. 1982EGEgyptian screenwriter
- Yassin Mikarib. 1983TNTunisian association football player
- Yassin El-Azzouzib. 1983FRMoroccan and French footballer
- Yassin Moutaouakilb. 1986FRMoroccan and French footballer
- Yassin Fekirb. 1997FRFrench association football player
- Yassin Fortunéb. 1999FRHaitian-French 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 67 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.5K | #507 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.6K | #927 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.1K | #461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,056 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.2K | #1,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,424 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.1K | #1,602 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 582 | #36,328 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 582 | #2,273 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 513 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 264 | #5,899 |
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 · 279 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yassin?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Yassin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yassin have the most bearers?
- Yassin is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled yassin.
- How common is Yassin compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Yassin is the 72nd most common given name of 44,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Yassin a male or female name?
- Yassin 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 Yassin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yassin är ett arabiskt namn, bildat till benämningen på sura nummer 36 i Koranen.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yassin” — the 72nd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.