Given name & surname
Yasar
“one who is well-off financially”
Yasar is a variant of Yasir. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is well-off financially.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yasar is a variant of Yasir. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is well-off financially.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yasar is a variant of Yasir. An origin associated with Yasir is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yasar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 331 as a first name in 2020; 294 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yasar
- Yaşar KemalKurdish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
- Yaşar ErkanTurkish wrestler (1911–1986)
- Yaşar DoğuTurkish wrestler (1913–1961)
- Yaşar GülerMinister of National Defense of the Republic of Turkeyborn 1954
- Yaşar YakışTurkish diplomat and politician (1938–2024)
- Yaşar Nuri ÖztürkTurkish philosopher (1951–2016)
- Yaşar KurtTurkish-Armenian singer and songwriter (b. 1968)
- Yashar AliyevAzerbaijani Ambassador to the United States 2006-2011 and Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan to the United Nations 2002—2006born 1955
- Yashar VahabzadeAzerbaijani association football playerborn 1960
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.