Yasin is a distinctive choice, ranked #494 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Yasin in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#494
About the Name Yasin
Yasin is steadily gaining in popularity, up 35 places over the past five years. Its best recorded rank was #420 in 2011, and it currently sits at #494. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Yasin is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Yasin
Unlikely. With around 79 UK babies named Yasin per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Yasin in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Yasin is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 35 places over the last five years to #494 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Yasin is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Yasin include: Yasin (rapper) — Yasin Abdullahi Mahamoud, known as Yasin or Yasin Byn, is a Swedish rapper and singer.; Yasin Temel — Professor Yasin Temel is a neurosurgeon with a strong interest in neuroscience.; Yasin Ehliz — Yasin Ehliz is a German professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing for EHC Red Bull München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL)..
Yasin does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Yasins in the wild.
79
UK babies named Yasin (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 35 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Yasin
Likely around 1 other Yasin in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Yasin
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Amin ur Rashid Yasin is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the incumbent minister of food, agriculture, fisheries and livestock since February 2026.
Sainab Ugas Yasin (Somali: Saynab Ugaas Yaasiin, Arabic: زينب اوغاس ياسين) is a Puntland politician. She was a member of Puntland House of Representatives in power for two consecutive terms.
Syed Mohammed Ahmed Zarar Siddibappa, known as Yasin Bhatkal, is an Indian Islamist terrorist, who was the co-founder and leader of the proscribed terrorist organisation Indian Mujahideen (IM). Yasin along with Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal (brothers, unrelated to Yasin), among others, founded the terrorist organisation around 2005.
Yasin Malik is a Kashmiri separatist leader and former militant who advocates the separation of Kashmir from both India and Pakistan. He is the chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, which was the first militant to spearheaded armed militancy in the Kashmir Valley.