Yashar
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yah-SHAR
- Origin
- Turkish
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Yashar is a boys' name of Turkish origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Yashar mean?
Turkish: Turkish and Azerbaijani Yasar, from yasamak 'to live'; also Hebrew yashar
Turkish and Azerbaijani Yasar comes from yasamak, 'to live'; Hebrew yashar, 'upright', is a separate source of the name.
Is Yashar a girl's or a boy's name?
Yashar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yashar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 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, 5 boys in the US were named Yashar, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 9 boys. It first appears in the records in 1984.
Half of all the boys named Yashar in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yashar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,138 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,144 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,529 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,263 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,264 |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,945 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,715 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,969 |
Names like Yashar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aarav, Veer, Krishiv, Vihaan, Avi, Avyaan, Viraj, Shivansh, Atharv, Yuvraj, Dhruv, Advik
Names related to Yashar
More Turkish names
Ayla, Aylin, Alara, Ayda, Orhan, Ayzel, Kaya, Aydin, Aslan, Eren, Evren, Ayaz, Ela, Aylah, Aleyna, Deniz
Sources
Figures from 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, “Yashar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yashar, updated 20 October 2026.