Yasir
Only about 50 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Hebrew at root and reads as something like easy or wealthy.
Yasir Pronunciation
Yasir is pronounced ih-AH-sheer (/ɨˈaɕir/).
What Yasir means
Where Yasir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasir traces back to a Hebrew root, though it settled into use as an Arabic name for boys. The short meaning holds two ideas, easy and wealthy, in Polish bogaty and dostatni. A person called Yasir was, in the older sense, someone whose days ran without hardship.
The best known bearer is Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died in 2004. His name reached newspapers and television far beyond the Arabic-speaking world, and Poland was no exception. For many Polish readers, the name arrived through him first.
Yasir has no Polish diminutive and no calendar name-day. A boy named Yasir in a Warsaw class register sits a little apart from the Kacpers and Szymons around him. The spelling stays plain. It keeps its meaning close: easy, and wealthy.
How many people are named Yasir
1 in 426924 men in Poland is named Yasir. 50 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5381 among male names.
Yasir as a middle name
Yasir is a first name for 50 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2366th, between Yaseen (16) and Yassin (16).
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#2364 Yannick16
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#2365 Yaseen16
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#2366 Yasir16
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#2367 Yassin16
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#2368 Zefir16