Yasin
Rooted in Hebrew, the name reads as "protected by God," a sense drawn from the thirty-sixth chapter of the Quran that opens with the letters ya and sin. Rare in Poland and given only to boys, it has been climbing again over the past few years.
Yasin Pronunciation
Yasin is pronounced ih-AH-sheen (/ɨˈaɕin/).
What Yasin means
Where Yasin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasin opens the thirty-sixth chapter of the Quran, a sura named after its first two letters, the Arabic ya and sin. No one has fixed what those letters stand for. That silence is old. Readers across the Arabic and Turkish world hold the chapter close, reciting it beside the sick and the dying, and over time the name gathered the sense that gives its Polish gloss: chroniony przez boga, protected by God.
The etymological root reaches back to Hebrew, and the meaning "protected by God" settled onto the name later, as a reading rather than a first definition. There are no diminutives here, no softened variants. Yasin stands as it is.
On a class register in a Polish school, Yasin sits among names of very different pedigree, an Arabic and Turkish name spelled the same in Warsaw as in Istanbul. It does not shorten. What a teacher reads aloud is the whole of it, four letters that once served as the heading of a sura.
How many people are named Yasin
1 in 92408 men in Poland is named Yasin. 231 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2050 among male names.
Yasin's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1398 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Yasin is most popular
Yasin is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Yasin as a middle name
Yasin is a first name for 231 men in Poland and a middle name for another 47, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1124th, between Talha (47) and Zefiryn (47).
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#1122 Rayan47
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#1123 Talha47
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#1124 Yasin47
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#1125 Zefiryn47
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#1126 Apollo46