Jasmine
Feminine · “Jasmine flower”
Jasmine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 258,626 girls against 1,263 boys since 1880. See Jasmine as a boy name
Jasmine flowers open after dark and close in the sun, which is why the perfume industry picks them at night. In the fields above Grasse and across Egypt and India the work starts before dawn and stops when the light comes, because a flower picked in daylight has already given up most of what it was grown for.
How old is the name Jasmine?
Jasmine first appears in US birth records in 1906 — 119 years ago. The typical Jasmine alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 255,000 people named Jasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jasmine most popular?
Jasmine peaked in 1993, reaching #23 nationally. Today it ranks #206, 183 places below that high. See the whole 1993 chart.
Where it comes from
From yasamin to Jasmine
The story of Jasmine
Jasmine is one of the most expensive materials in perfumery for reasons that come straight from the plant's habits. The flowers give off scent at night, must be picked by hand within a few hours of opening, and yield so little oil that it takes several thousand blossoms to produce a few grams; a single field's harvest is measured in the weight of petals. The night picking is not tradition or romance, it is chemistry. Separately, the flower is the national one of Tunisia, and when the protests of the early twenty-tens brought down that country's government the international press named the events after it, so that a word for a scented climber ended up naming a revolution.
Meaning
Jasmine flower
The word is Persian, yasamin, and it traveled with the plant: into Arabic, into Spanish and Italian, into French and then English, gathering spellings on the way. The name is the flower and nothing else, which puts it in the same class as Rose, Lily and Violet rather than in the class of names with a hidden meaning to be looked up.
Cultural footprint
Jasmine Guy (b. 1962) — A Different World star
Source: Wikidata — the one source on this page that is not an official agency.
How the name formed
- yasamin
- jasmin
- Jasmine
Related forms: Yasamin · Yasmin · Jasmine · Jazmin · Yasemin
Pronouncing Jasmine
JAZ-min
Two syllables with the stress at the front. The Persian and Arabic forms begin with a y and put the weight at the back; the j is what French and Spanish did to that sound, and English took the French version.
Nicknames for Jasmine
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
- 1992 — Aladdin
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1906
- Most girls named
- 199312,063 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #23reached in 1993
- Change vs 2023
- −7.2%1,481 in 2025, from 1,596
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.
Jasmine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yasamin in Persian — transliteration
- Yasmin in Arabic — same name
- Jasmine in French — same name
- Jazmin in Spanish — same name
- Yasemin in Turkish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida. International figures from Statistics Canada, Office for National Statistics. Sources
Jasmines among us
people named Jasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 1,085 born in 2025 was named Jasmine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jasmine
- #206
- Jasmine on the 2025 chart
- #187
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jasmine went to 1,481 girls in 2025, but Jazmine and Jazmyne are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,761, which makes it the 187th most-given girls’ name of the year — 19 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 913 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 1,085 for Jasmine itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Andrea test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jasmine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Andrea climbed just as high around 1978, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Andrea's path sketches the road Jasmine is walking now.
Jasmine is coming down from a big peak (#23 in 1993). This is the stretch of the cycle where a name starts to sound like the decade it ruled.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jasmine is headed
Jasmine should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Jasmine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jasmine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognizable across Persian, Arabic, Turkish, French and Spanish with only small changes of spelling.
- The meaning is a real and pleasant thing that needs no explaining in any language.
- Several short forms with completely different registers, from the brisk Jas to the antique Minnie.
- The name is on record for boys in small numbers, so it is not the absolute signal it appears.
- Jasmin, Jazmin, Jazmine and Yasmin are all in use, so spelling it out is a permanent job.
- One animated film has owned the name for a generation of American children.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jasmines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 255,000 people named Jasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jasmine?
- Jasmine is the most-used spelling in US records — 1,481 of the 1,761 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jazmine and Jazmyne.
- How popular is the name Jasmine in 2025?
- Jasmine ranks #206 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,481 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jasmine?
- About 1 in every 1,085 US girls born in 2025 was named Jasmine — 1,481 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jasmine with classmates?
- Jasmine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
- What explains the spikes and dips on Jasmine's chart?
- Jasmine climbed after 1992 — Aladdin.
Ranked beside Jasmine
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