Given name & surname
Yasir
“one who is well-off financially”
Yasir is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is well-off financially.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is well-off financially.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yasir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,267
- 3,267 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 205 babies
- 2025
- 181
- #1,158 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +15%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 181 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,158 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 14.8% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 205 in 2019. In 2025, Minnesota and Ohio shared the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (14 each). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,175 as a first name in 2020; 483 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.
Yasir’s family of names
Yasir has a related form in Yasser. Yasir has a related form in Yaser. Yasir has a related form in Yassir.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Yasservariant
- Yassirvariant
- Yaservariant
- Yaseervariant
- Yasarvariant
- Yasirrlikely variant
- Yassarvariant
- Yassyrvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yasir
- Yasir ibn AmirCompanion (Sahabi) of Muhammad, and father of Ammar
- Yasir al-DawsariImam of Masjid-al-Haraamborn 1980
- Yasir QadhiPakistani-American preacher and imamborn 1975
- Yasir ArafatPakistani cricketerborn 1982
- Yasir Nadeem al WajidiChicago-based scholarborn 1982
- Yasir SubaşıTurkish association football player (born 1996)
- Yasir HujeiratArab Israeli geneticist and politicianborn 1965
- Yasir ElmacıTurkish association football player (born 1981)
- Yasir ShahIndian/Pakistani actorborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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