Yazan
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yazan is a given name, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Yazan är ett namn med flera bakgrunder.
- TRTürkiye1 in 491◐
- SYSyria1 in 816
- JOJordan1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈208K ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 289 ●
- 1 in 491 ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
928K records
Official registry-verified
Türkiye
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yasin in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, US United States and 12 more, Yacine in FR France, ES Spain, DZ Algeria and 2 more, Яшин in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Ясин in KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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●
Yazan är ett namn med flera bakgrunder. Det är vanligt i Mellanöstern. Namnet kan vara arabiskt och kopplas samman med ord som betyder ’lätt, smidig’ eller ha farsiskt ursprung och då betyda ’beslutsam’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #87 | 166,938 | 652K rec. | 1 in 491 | 167K | Yasin | 114 |
| RU Russia | — | 121,538 | 43K rec. | — | #393 | Яшин | 135 |
| SY Syria | #71 | 40,791 | 54K rec. | — | — | Yazan | 40 |
| FR France | #554 | 21,860 | 55K rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 22K | Yacine | 289 |
| DE Germany | #660 | 20,339 | 20K rec. | — | 2 | Yasin | 147 |
| IN India | — | 13,485 | 6.5K rec. | — | 203 | Yasin | 76 |
| ES Spain | — | 9,125△ | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 9.1K | Yacine | 37 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 7,047 | 7.8K rec. | — | — | Яшин | 34 |
| DZ Algeria | #116 | 5,122 | 5.4K rec. | — | listed | Yacine | 61 |
| AT Austria | #439 | 4,805 | 1.8K rec. | — | 816 | Yasin | 63 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,827 | 4.4K rec. | — | 6 | Yasin | 110 |
| JO Jordan | #199 | 3,572 | 3.8K rec. | — | — | Yazan | 107 |
Roughly 167K people in Türkiye bear this name (about 1 in 491). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic29K58%
- English4.3K9%
- Turkish3.2K6%
- French2.3K5%
- German1.8K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 29,019 | 58% |
| English | 4,298 | 9% |
| Turkish | 3,161 | 6% |
| French | 2,347 | 5% |
| German | 1,774 | 4% |
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●
Yazan 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 English, A transliteration of the Arabic male given name يازن.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, subject non-past participle of yazmaq
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 10 |
| 1993 | 16 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 16 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 26 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 29 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 29 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 27 |
| 2006 | 31 |
| 2007 | 42 |
| 2008 | 28 |
| 2009 | 51 |
| 2010 | 52 |
| 2011 | 43 |
| 2012 | 53 |
| 2013 | 62 |
| 2014 | 72 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2016 | 83 |
| 2017 | 79 |
| 2018 | 85 |
| 2019 | 77 |
| 2020 | 77 |
| 2021 | 97 |
| 2022 | 103 |
| 2023 | 137 |
| 2024 | 175 |
| 2025 | 190 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1983–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yazan Al Khalilib. 1981PSPalestinian artist (born 1981)
- Yazan Al-Naimatb. 1999JOJordanian footballer
- Yazan Al-Bawwabb. 1999PSPalestinian swimmer
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 48 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #8,743 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 872 | #1,874 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 698 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 524 | #2,434 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 465 | #488 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 190 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 182 | #9,694 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 133 | #1,189 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 104 | #7,186 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 75 | #6,135 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 70 | #352 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 57 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 280 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yazan?
- We estimate roughly 208 thousand people bear Yazan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yazan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 167 thousand people bear Yazan in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yasin.
- Where is Yazan most common?
- Yazan is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 491 people carrying it.
- How common is Yazan compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Yazan is the 87th most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.
- Is Yazan a male or female name?
- Yazan 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 Yazan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Yazan är ett namn med flera bakgrunder.
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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, “Yazan” — the 87th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.