Yazir
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- yah-ZEER
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Yazir is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
Where does Yazir come from?
Arabic: probably a variant of Yasir
Is Yazir a girl's or a boy's name?
Yazir is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yazir in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Yazir, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the boys named Yazir in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yazir in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 15 | #5,922 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,629 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,455 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,273 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
Names like Yazir
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir Zamir Ahmir Hamza Amir Zayd Nazir Muhammad Samir Nasir Musa Azir
Names related to Yazir
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Kairo Safa
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, “Yazir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yazir, updated 20 October 2026.