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
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 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.
- Yazan 88
- Yazen 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Yazen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
How popular is Yazen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,044th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 90,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 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.
- Yazan 190
- Yazen 19
- Yazin 9
Yazen in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,870 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,557 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,422 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,149 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,056 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,620 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,030 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,633 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,388 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,470 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,132 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,834 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,528 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,400 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,446 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,693 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,426 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,511 |
| 1990 | 7 | #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
Names related to Yazen
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, 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, “Yazen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yazen, updated 20 October 2026.