Jasmyn
Feminine · “the jasmine flower”
Jasmyn is the flower, spelled the American way. The word traveled a long distance to get here: Persian yasamin for the plant, Arabic yasmin, then Persian gardens into Arab ones and Arab ones into Spain and southern France, until French had jasmin and English borrowed it whole.
How old is the name Jasmyn?
Jasmyn first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Jasmyn alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 6,000 people named Jasmyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jasmyn most popular?
Jasmyn peaked in 1999, reaching #831 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 3,927 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yasamin to Jasmyn
The story of Jasmyn
Jasmine came into English use as a flower-name in the nineteenth century, when Victorian families were naming daughters Rose, Lily, Violet and Ivy, but it stayed uncommon for a hundred years afterwards. It became widely given in the United States in the nineteen-eighties and nineties, and the respellings arrived with the popularity, as they always do: Jazmine, Jasmyn, Jazmyn and Jasmin all writing the same word. The y in this one belongs to the same American habit that produced Kaitlyn and Alysia.
Meaning
the jasmine flower
Persian yasamin, the jasmine plant, through Arabic yasmin and French jasmin. The plant reached Europe from Persia and India along with its name, which is why almost every European language says a version of the same word.
How the name formed
- yasamin
- yasmin
- jasmin
- Jasmine
- Jasmyn
Related forms: Yasmin · یاسمین · Yasemin · Jasmine · Yazmín
Pronouncing Jasmyn
JAZ-min
Two syllables, stress in front, said exactly like the flower. The y changes nothing at all.
Nicknames for Jasmyn
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 2004292 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #831reached in 1999
- Change vs 2024
- −12.5%28 in 2025, from 32
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.
Jasmyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yasmin in Arabic — same name
- یاسمین in Persian — transliteration
- Yasemin in Turkish — same name
- Jasmine in French — same name
- Yazmín in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Jasmyns among us
people named Jasmyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Jasmyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jasmyn
- #4758
- Jasmyn on the 2025 chart
- #426
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jasmyn went to 28 girls in 2025, but Jazmin, Jasmin and Jazmyn and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 668, which makes it the 426th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,332 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,406 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 57,402 for Jasmyn 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 Maurice test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jasmyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maurice climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maurice's path sketches the road Jasmyn is walking now.
Jasmyn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Jasmyn is headed
Jasmyn should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Jasmyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jasmyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a plant everyone can picture and smell, which very few names manage.
- The same word is a name in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, French and Spanish, so it crosses borders intact.
- Jas and Jazzy are ready short forms of different registers.
- Jasmine is the standard English spelling; this one will be corrected constantly.
- Jazmine, Jazmyn and Jasmyn are all in circulation, so written confusion is certain.
- The name is strongly attached to an animated princess, which is charm to some children and noise to others.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jasmyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,000 people named Jasmyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jasmyn?
- Jasmyn is one of 5 recorded spellings. Jazmin is the more common one — 395 births in 2025 against 28 for Jasmyn.
- How popular is the name Jasmyn in 2025?
- Jasmyn ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jasmyn?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Jasmyn — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jasmyn with classmates?
- Jasmyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jasmyn
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