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Yaser

#5,383 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Yasir

Yaser has been given to 496 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #5,383 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Yaser, 2025

1 in 184,000

Yaser over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yaser: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yasir

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yaser means

Yaser is a form of Yasir.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yaser → Yasir. The family’s meaning is “easy, wealthy”, recorded in the naming reference for Yasir.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yasir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 496 boys were recorded with the name Yaser between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,873 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,274 in 2020 to #5,383 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,520 in 2015 to #5,383 in 2025.

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 Yaser?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,383
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yaser 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 2025 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yasers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaser was born before 2008 — so the typical Yaser is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
496
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Choose a decade

2010s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (140).

Is Yaser 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
+502
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+891
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,137
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.3%
Peak was 2016 (23)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,873
1986

Spellings of Yaser

Yaser is not the most common spelling — Casey is, with 24.3% against Yaser's 0.10%.

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.

Where Yaser is used

Across 1910–2025, Yaser was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,596,718 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yaser has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yaser around the world

Where Yaser 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
    1997–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1979–2024
    #6,613
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2006–2013
    #2,635
    in 2013

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.

Yaser by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,383
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 891
Best rank ever
#3,873
1986
Peak year
2016
23 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
496
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Yaser

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

YasserYassirYashuaYasielNaserKyserYassineYassinYasinYasirYasharFraserYasuoYashasAsserYasiahYashYaseenJaserYaseerNasserAserYasmaniYasha

Sibling names for Yaser

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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