Jasmin
Masculine · “From the jasmine flower”
Jasmin is given to girls far more often — 45,060 girls against 589 boys since 1880. See Jasmin as a girl name
Jasmin is the flower name without its final e, the spelling German and French use for the plant. It has two surprising lives: in the Balkans it is a boy's name, and in France it was the pen name of a barber who became a famous poet.
How old is the name Jasmin?
Jasmin first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Jasmin alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 600 people named Jasmin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jasmin most popular?
Jasmin peaked in 1989, reaching #1919 nationally. See the whole 1989 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yasaman to Jasmin
The story of Jasmin
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, Jasmin is an ordinary boy's name, worn by footballers and basketball coaches, while Germany and English-speaking countries give it to girls. In southwestern France, Jacques Boé, a hairdresser in Agen, wrote poems in Gascon, the old language of his region, under the name Jasmin; crowds came to hear him recite, and Longfellow translated his poem about a blind village girl into English.
Meaning
From the jasmine flower
Jasmin is the German and French word for jasmine, from Persian yasaman.
How the name formed
- yasaman
- Jasmin
Related forms: Jasmin · Jasmine · Yasaman · Yasmin
Pronouncing Jasmin
JAZ-min
Two syllables with the stress on the first; in German YAHS-meen.
Nicknames for Jasmin
Moderate
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
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 198938 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1919reached in 1989
- Change vs 2008
- −28.6%5 in 2017, from 7
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.
Jasmin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jasmin in German — same name
- Jasmine in English — spelling variant
- Yasaman in Persian — related form
- Yasmin in Arabic — related form
Jasmins among us
people named Jasmin 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
Jasmin 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
- A flower name everyone recognizes.
- Simpler to spell than Jasmine.
- Used across many countries.
- Many will add an e.
- In the Balkans it is a boy's name.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys in America, but nearly every Jasmin here is a girl.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jasmins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Jasmin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jasmin in 2025?
- Jasmin is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Jasmin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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