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Yasir

Yasir: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“wealthy, prosperous; easy”
Origin
Arabic
Say it
YAH-seer · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys

From Arabic yāsir, traditionally meaning wealthy or prosperous and also associated with ease. A long-used masculine name in Arabic and Muslim contexts.

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How popular is Yasir?

202458.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Yasir in 2024193

2024 rank#1,108 boys

Peak year2019

Total US babies since 18803,084

Yasir is rising: use over the last five years is 1.9× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Yasir

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Amircommander, prince · Arabic
  • Muhammadpraised · Arabic
  • Zaynbeauty, grace · Arabic
  • Omarflourishing, long-lived · Arabic
  • Cairovictorious · Arabic
  • Ibrahimfather of multitudes · Arabic
  • Khalilfriend, beloved · Arabic
  • Malikking · Arabic

Yasir questions

What does the name Yasir mean?

Yasir means "wealthy, prosperous; easy". It comes from Arabic. From Arabic yāsir, traditionally meaning wealthy or prosperous and also associated with ease. A long-used masculine name in Arabic and Muslim contexts.

Is Yasir a boy or girl name?

Yasir is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Yasir?

193 US babies were named Yasir in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.

How do you pronounce Yasir?

Yasir is usually pronounced YAH-seer.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.