Yacine
An Arabic name linked to the Quran's Ya-Sin sura, with a sense of prosperity and deliverance. In Poland it barely registers: 49 men carry it, all male, and no boys have been given it in years.
Yacine Pronunciation
Yacine is pronounced ih-ah-CHEE-ne (/ɨaˈt͡ɕinɛ/).
What Yacine means
Where Yacine comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yacine begins with two letters. Ya and Sin open the thirty-sixth sura of the Quran, and no one has settled what they mean. Muslim tradition treats the chapter as the heart of the book, recited over the dying and the dead. From that reading the name took its sense of deliverance, the Polish wyzwolenie and zbawienie, rescue rather than good fortune.
The English gloss "prosperous" sits beside this. It arrived later, an association more than an origin, since the opening letters stay silent about themselves.
Yacine spread across North Africa, and the French -c- marks that route. In Algeria it is ordinary. On a Polish class register it is rarer, one line among the Jakubs and Kacpers. The name holds close to its source: two letters, one sura, the sense of rescue that readers gave it.
How many people are named Yacine
1 in 435636 men in Poland is named Yacine. 49 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5447 among male names.
Yacine as a middle name
Yacine is a first name for 49 men in Poland and a middle name for another 17, a 74/26 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2274th, between Xander (17) and Yavuz (17).
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#2272 Vasileios17
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#2273 Xander17
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#2274 Yacine17
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#2275 Yavuz17
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#2276 Yunus17