Yaşar is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “the one who lives.” In England & Wales it was given to 4 boys in 2025.
Yaşar at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“the one who lives”
About the name Yaşar
Yaşar belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “the one who lives” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Yaşar first appears in Social Security records in 2018. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #14010 in 2018, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 10 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.