Yasi̇n
Yasin comes from the opening letters of a chapter of the Quran, a name carried in Arabic and Turkish tradition. In Poland it stays rare: just 92 men and boys hold it, and most Poles have never met one.
Yasi̇n Pronunciation
Yasi̇n is pronounced IH-ahsi̇n (/ˈɨasi̇n/).
What Yasi̇n means
Where Yasi̇n comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasin opens the thirty-sixth chapter of the Quran, Surah Ya-Sin, with two Arabic letters whose full meaning was never spelled out. Scholars call these the muqatta'at, the disjointed letters, and Ya-Sin ranks among the most recited passages in the tradition. The name begins as a sound before it becomes a word.
The roots reach back further. The origin here is Hebrew, and the name travelled into Arabic and then Turkish, where boys still carry it today. Polish name guides give its sense as siła i wytrwałość, strength and perseverance. That reading came later, attached to a name whose literal core is a pair of letters, not a definition.
Picture a Warsaw class register with Yasin listed between two Polish names. The spelling holds. There are no diminutives, no feminine form, nothing to soften it into a nickname.
A child named Yasin inherits a Hebrew root and two Quranic letters, glossed in Polish as strength and perseverance.
How many people are named Yasi̇n
1 in 232024 men in Poland is named Yasi̇n. 92 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3650 among male names.
Yasi̇n as a middle name
Yasi̇n is a first name for 92 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 81/19 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1899th, between Wallace (22) and Yasser (22).
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#1897 Waleed22
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#1898 Wallace22
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#1899 Yasi̇n22
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#1900 Yasser22
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#1901 Yong22