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Yacine

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Alternate transcription of Yasin

Yacine has been given to 204 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.

Babies named Yacine, 2024

1 in 478,000

Yacine over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yacine over time

In 2024, Yacine went to 42% girls and 58% boys.

19972024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yacine: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Yasin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yacine means

Yacine is a alternate transcription of Yasin.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yacine is used in Arabic (Maghrebi).

Another recorded pronunciation is /jaː.ˈsiːn/ and /ja.sin/ for Yacine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yasin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 118 boys were recorded with the name Yacine between 1999 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #7,574 in 2016.

In the United States, 86 girls were recorded with the name Yacine between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1997; its best national rank was #9,780 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Yacine?

Yacine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yacine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yacine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yacines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yacine was born before 2014 — so the typical Yacine is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
118
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Choose a decade

2010s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Yacine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (11)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,574
2016

Spellings of Yacine

Yacine is not the most common spelling — Kaine is, with 23.6% against Yacine's 0.77%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Yacine around the world

Where Yacine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    1955–2025
    #319
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yacine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,574
2016
Peak year
2016
11 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
118
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,780
1997
Peak year
1997
9 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
86
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yacine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

YacoubYacqubXaineLamineYacobJamineArvineDavineBaineAldineErvineShineThaineGenuineYacielErmineDevineKarmineLemoineAmineYacovYassineEugineJazmine

Sibling names for Yacine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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