Yaasir
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- YAH-sir
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Yaasir is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “easy, prosperous”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies) and 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Yaasir mean?
Arabic: spelling of Yasir; from yusr, ease
“easy, prosperous”
Yasir ibn Amir, father of Ammar ibn Yasir, was among the earliest converts to Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Yasir.
Is Yaasir a girl's or a boy's name?
Yaasir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK and 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yaasir in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,301st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 9% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Yaasir, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2008, with 8 boys.
Half of all the boys named Yaasir in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 100 boys in the UK were given Yaasir or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #442, up from #4,301 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Yaasir in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 5 | #3,614 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,161 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 7 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 4 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,092 |
| 2009 | 5 | #3,395 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,384 |
| 2007 | 6 | #2,873 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,292 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,399 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #3,325 |
How popular is Yaasir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Yaasir, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.
2025 had more boys named Yaasir than any year since 2018.
Half of all the boys named Yaasir in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 283 boys in the US were given Yaasir or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #795, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Yaasir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 8 | #8,983 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,650 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,048 |
Names like Yaasir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayaan, Zayan, Musa, Umar, Amir, Hamza, Zayd, Abdullah, Yahya, Arham, Ahmed
Other spellings of Yaasir
Names related to Yaasir
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa, Liyana
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yaasir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaasir, updated 20 October 2026.