How Many People Are Named Yasir?
people named Yasir are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 105,914 people in the US has this name
Based on 3,267 babies named Yasir in Social Security records from 1974 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
205 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "to be rich", derived from Arabic يسر (yasira) "to become easy". This was the name of an early Islamic martyr. It was also borne by Yasir Arafat (1929-2004), a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Yasir in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Yasir alive today is about 12 years old, and 94% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 19 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Yasir first appears in the records in 1974 and was given most often in 2019, to 205 babies. In 2025, 181 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1974 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Yasir has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,017, in 2019. In 2025 it ranked #1,158.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,158 |
| Best rank | #1,017 (2019) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,468 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Yasir alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Yasir were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 388 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yasir was given 7.8 times as often in Minnesota, 5.1 times in Pennsylvania and 4 times in New Jersey.
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