Jasmaine
Feminine · “jasmine”
Jasmaine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 818 girls against 6 boys since 1880.
Jasmaine is a spelling of Jasmine, and Jasmine is a flower before it is a name: the small white star-shaped bloom that Persian called yasmin and that reached English by way of Arabic and French. The flower and the name have never parted company.
How old is the name Jasmaine?
Jasmaine first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Jasmaine alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 800 people named Jasmaine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jasmaine most popular?
Jasmaine peaked in 1989, reaching #1943 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
Where it comes from
From yasmin to Jasmaine
The story of Jasmaine
The flower came first and the name followed it, which is the usual order for flower names. What is less widely known is that the jasmine in the teapot and the jasmine in the perfume bottle are two different plants. Tea is scented with Jasminum sambac, a small-leaved shrub whose flowers are layered in with the tea overnight and taken out in the morning, sometimes several nights running. Perfume uses Jasminum grandiflorum, a larger-flowered climber grown for its oil, and it does not smell the same. Two people who know jasmine, one from tea and one from scent, are not thinking of the same thing. Whether this particular spelling was built from Jasmine alone, or under the pull of Jermaine and Charmaine, which were in the record at the same moment, is not something anyone wrote down.
Meaning
jasmine, the flower
The flower's name came into English from French jasmin, which took it from Arabic, which took it from Persian. The reading is settled and has never been in dispute.
How the name formed
- yasmin
- jasmin
- Jasmine
- Jasmaine
Related forms: Jasmine · Yasmin · Yasmin · Jazmín
Pronouncing Jasmaine
JAZ-min
Most people treat it as a spelling of Jasmine and say JAZ-min. The -aine ending invites jaz-MAYN instead, and both are heard, sometimes for the same child.
Nicknames for Jasmaine
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most girls named
- 199168 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1943reached in 1989
- Change vs 2008
- +20.0%6 in 2010, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jasmaine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jasmine in French — same name
- Yasmin in Persian — same name
- Yasmin in Arabic — transliteration
- Jazmín in Spanish — spelling variant
Jasmaines among us
people named Jasmaine are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jasmaine sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The flower is real, the meaning is settled, and both are easy to explain to a child who asks.
- The name behind it is known in a dozen languages, so it travels without needing translation.
- Jaz comes off the front as a short form and requires no introduction anywhere.
- Jasmine is by far the commonest spelling, and this one will be corrected to it constantly.
- The -aine ending pulls the pronunciation toward jaz-MAYN, so the name gets said two ways and neither is wrong.
- This spelling is recorded for boys as well as girls, and in recent years more often for boys, which forms and software will not expect.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jasmaines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Jasmaine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jasmaine in 2025?
- Jasmaine is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Jasmaine with classmates?
- Jasmaine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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