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Yazen

Gender
Boy
Say it
YAH-zan
Origin
Arabic
UK rank, 2025
#5,065 for boys
US rank, 2025
#5,044 for boys

Yazen is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).

What does Yazen mean?

Arabic: spelling of Yazan; from the ancient Yemeni family name Dhu Yazan

Recalls Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan, a 6th-century Yemeni king who became the hero of an Arabic folk epic.

Meaning borrowed from Yazan. More on Wiktionary.

Is Yazen a girl's or a boy's name?

Yazen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 19 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yazen in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,065among boys
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 36% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Yazen, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 5 boys.

In 2025, 91 boys in the UK were given Yazen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #465, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

2009Busiest: 5 in 20152025
Yazen in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20244#4,346
20230–
20223#5,017
20210–
20203#4,803
20194#4,126
20184#4,169
20170–
20160–
20155#3,527
20144#4,063
20130–
20120–
20113#4,837
20100–
20093#4,691

How popular is Yazen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,044among boys
Babies in 2025
19about 1 in 90,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadydown 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Yazen, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,422nd. Its busiest year was 2020, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 1990.

2025 had more boys named Yazen than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Yazen in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 218 boys in the US were given Yazen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #936, up from #5,044 for this spelling alone.

1990Busiest: 22 in 20202025
Yazen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#5,044
202410#7,760
202316#5,661
202215#5,870
202116#5,557
202022#4,422
201918#5,149
201815#5,766
201712#6,681
201615#5,785
201518#5,056
201411#7,043
20139#8,113
201212#6,620
201114#5,939
201019#4,845
20099#8,305
20086#11,030
200710#7,586
20068#8,726
20059#7,633
20047#8,921
20038#7,824
200213#5,388
200117#4,470
20000–
19998#7,132
199810#5,834
19970–
199610#5,528
19958#6,400
199410#5,446
19935#8,693
19925#8,426
19917#6,511
19907#6,408

Names like Yazen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Yusuf Muhammad Yahya Zayan Zayaan Musa Rayyan Hamza Zayd Umar Kairo Abdullah

Other spellings of Yazen

Yazan

Names related to Yazen

Aizen Ayzen

More Arabic names

Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Safa Liyana

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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, “Yazen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yazen, updated 20 October 2026.