Yaqeen
- Gender
- Unisex
- Say it
- ya-KEEN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,868 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Yaqeen is a name of Arabic origin, meaning “certainty, firm faith”. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Yaqeen mean?
Arabic: spelling of Yaqin
“certainty, firm faith”
A Qur'anic word for certainty, especially sure faith that leaves no room for doubt.
Is Yaqeen a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Yaqeen has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls and 4 boys in the UK and 18 girls and 7 boys in the US.
How popular is Yaqeen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,868th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 115% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Yaqeen, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. 4 boys were also named Yaqeen in 2025 (4,301st for boys).
2025 had the most girls named Yaqeen of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Yaqeen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 80% of the babies named Yaqeen in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.
Yaqeen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,868 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
How popular is Yaqeen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Yaqeen, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 2012. 7 boys were also named Yaqeen in 2025 (9,710th for boys).
2025 had the most girls named Yaqeen of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Yaqeen in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yaqeen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
Names like Yaqeen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Hiba, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Rahma, Rehmat, Amal, Abeeha, Huda, Ruqayyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Yaqeen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yaqeen, updated 20 October 2026.