Yameen
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ya-MEEN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,686 for boys
Yameen is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “right hand; blessed”. In 2025 it ranked 1,686th for boys in the UK (16 babies).
What does Yameen mean?
Arabic: spelling of Yamin
“right hand; blessed”
From Arabic yamin, the right hand, associated in the Qur'an with the blessed 'companions of the right'.
Is Yameen a girl's or a boy's name?
Yameen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yameen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,686th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 19,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 73% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 16 boys in the UK were named Yameen, making it the 1,686th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,359th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 18 boys.
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had more boys named Yameen than any year since 2013.
Half of all the boys named Yameen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 39 boys in the UK were given Yameen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #795, up from #1,686 for this spelling alone.
- Yamin 23
- Yameen 16
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,612th in England and Wales.
Yameen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,686 |
| 2024 | 13 | #1,917 |
| 2023 | 9 | #2,468 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,219 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,359 |
| 2019 | 8 | #2,633 |
| 2018 | 5 | #3,596 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,461 |
| 2016 | 8 | #2,690 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,425 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,378 |
| 2013 | 18 | #1,445 |
| 2012 | 4 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 11 | #2,011 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,534 |
| 2009 | 6 | #2,970 |
| 2008 | 6 | #2,906 |
| 2007 | 12 | #1,760 |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 4 | #3,330 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,157 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 3 | #3,255 |
| 2000 | 4 | #2,612 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #2,531 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #2,949 |
Names like Yameen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Zayan, Zayaan, Musa, Ahmed, Abdullah, Yahya, Rayyan, Mustafa, Zayd, Umar, Yazan
Other spellings of Yameen
Names related to Yameen
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yameen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yameen, updated 20 October 2026.