Yassin
An Arabic name pointing to the Quranic chapter Ya-Sin. It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 120 men carry it, all of them male, so meeting one sticks in memory.
Yassin Pronunciation
What Yassin means
Where Yassin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yassin reaches Polish records with an Arabic face, though name books log its deeper source as Hebrew. The form answers to Ya-Sin, the title of the 36th chapter of the Quran. Those are two Arabic letters that open the sura, and Muslim tradition calls that chapter the heart of the Quran.
The Polish gloss reads bogaty, zamożny, rich and well-off. That meaning came to the name later. It grew from the standing of the sacred chapter rather than from a plain root, so the wealth here began as honor before it meant coin.
Yassin keeps no diminutive of its own. It has no separate variant in these records. On a class register in Gdańsk, the name can sit one line above Jan without comment. The spelling holds two s letters, and the gloss beside it stays bogaty, zamożny.
How many people are named Yassin
1 in 185619 men in Poland is named Yassin. 115 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3171 among male names.
Yassin's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1889 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Yassin is most popular
Yassin is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian2 boys born+510%
Yassin as a middle name
Yassin is a first name for 115 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2367th, between Yasir (16) and Zefir (16).
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#2365 Yaseen16
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#2366 Yasir16
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#2367 Yassin16
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#2368 Zefir16
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#2369 Abdelhamid15