boy's name
Yassine
ya-SEEN
- Origin Arabic
- Gender Boy
- Letters 7
- Popularity Rare
- Births on record 24,095
France
#160
2025 births
Yassine is a boy's name of Arabic origin taken from two letters that open a chapter of the Quran and whose meaning nobody knows. It ranks 160th in France and is stable in our data.
- Yassine is a name of Arabic origin.
- Peaked in France in 2012, when 720 babies were given the name.
- Its usage has held steady over the past decade in France.
- Today about 1 in 1,572 babies in France is given this name.
- First appears in birth records in 1958.
Yassine over time
Births per decade in France, 1950s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 |
| 1960s | 95 |
| 1970s | 575 |
| 1980s | 2,175 |
| 1990s | 4,420 |
| 2000s | 6,355 |
| 2010s | 6,215 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 2,465 |
What Yassine means
Yassine has no established meaning. Ya and Sin are two Arabic letters that open sura 36, and Muslim scholarship has never agreed what they signify — the honest answer is that the name is a pair of letters.
Where Yassine comes from
Yassine is a French spelling of the Arabic Yasin, which comes from the two letters ya and sin that open the thirty-sixth sura of the Quran. That sura is called Ya-Sin after them and is among the most recited, often at deathbeds. Fourteen suras open with such disconnected letters, the huruf muqatta'at, and their meaning has been debated for fourteen centuries without resolution: proposals include abbreviations, divine names, and a deliberate marker of the unknowable. Some traditions treat Ya-Sin as an address to the Prophet, giving it the sense of O human being, and that reading is why the name is given at all. The confident glosses reference sites offer — chief, or rich — have no basis in Arabic lexicography.
Yassine in use
Yassine ranks 160th in France with about 375 births in 2025 and is stable in our data with a peak in 2012. Our records carry it from 1958, one of the earlier Arabic names in our French series. It is rare in the English-speaking markets at 3,148th in England and Wales, where Yasin and Yaseen carry the demand under different spellings.
How popular is Yassine?
In 2025, Yassine was given to 375 babies in France, ranking #160 that year. It is a rare choice.
Where Yassine is used
French counts are rounded to the nearest five and nothing below five is published, so these figures show the shape of the name's use rather than an exact tally. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Yassine
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Yassine also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Yassine over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
1 nickname for Yassine
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Yassine in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Yassine
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Yassine — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Yassine
What does the name Yassine mean?
Nothing established. It comes from the two letters opening sura 36, whose meaning has never been agreed.
Why is the sura called Ya-Sin?
It opens with those two disconnected letters. Fourteen suras begin this way and the letters remain unexplained.
Does Yassine mean chief or rich?
Those glosses appear on reference sites but have no basis in Arabic lexicography.
How popular is Yassine?
160th in France.
Is Yassine a girl's or a boy's name?
Yassine is given almost entirely to boys in birth records.
What are the nicknames for Yassine?
Yassine is usually shortened to Yasin.
Is Yassine a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Yassine currently ranks #160 in France. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.