Yassine
The name points to the Qur'anic surah Ya-Sin and carries the sense of deliverance. In Poland it stays rare: nearly every bearer is one of about 150 men, and boys almost never get it now.
Yassine Pronunciation
What Yassine means
Where Yassine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yassine comes from Ya-Sin, the title of the 36th surah of the Quran, made of two Arabic letters whose meaning scholars have debated for centuries. The name reached Poland through Arabic, and its roots are traced back to Hebrew. Among Muslim families the surah holds a reputation as the heart of the Quran, and reciting it is a common act of devotion, often at the bedside of the sick.
The Polish sense given to the name is wyzwolenie, zbawienie: deliverance, salvation. That reading grew from the surah's themes of resurrection and mercy, attached to the name later rather than sitting in the letters themselves.
On a Polish class register, Yassine now sits beside Jan and Antoni. The name keeps its link to Arabic in a country far from where it began. One well-known bearer is Yassine Bounou, the Moroccan goalkeeper called Bono, who played at the 2022 World Cup.
The name has no common Polish diminutive. Short, it stays. Yassine, from a surah of two letters, meaning deliverance.
How many people are named Yassine
1 in 139518 men in Poland is named Yassine. 153 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2631 among male names.
Yassine's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Yassine as a middle name
Yassine is a first name for 153 men in Poland and a middle name for another 28, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1616th, between Sorin (28) and Ashokbhai (27).
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#1614 Semir28
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#1615 Sorin28
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#1616 Yassine28
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#1617 Ashokbhai27
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#1618 Batuhan27