Jazlene
Feminine
The Jaz- of Jazlene comes from Jasmine, and Jasmine comes from Persian yasamin, the flower. English got the word through Arabic and French, and the plant itself traveled the same road, so the name and the shrub arrived in Europe together.
How old is the name Jazlene?
Jazlene first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Jazlene alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,500 people named Jazlene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jazlene most popular?
Jazlene peaked in 2008, reaching #833 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 5,713 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Where it comes from
From yasamin to Jazlene
The story of Jazlene
Jasmine reached Europe as a plant and a word at the same time, along the trade routes through Persia and the Arab world, and it became one of the standard flower names of English in the twentieth century. American naming then did what it does with any popular name and began building on it: Jazmin, Jazlyn, Jazlene, Jazmarie. The -lene ending was already established from Marlene and Charlene, and it attaches easily. Jazlene's best year in United States records is 2008, and the family it belongs to is strongest in Latino and African American naming, where both the flower and the ending had been established for a generation.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
If the name is built on Jasmine, the source is Persian yasamin, the jasmine flower, borrowed into Arabic and thence into the European languages. If the Jaz- is instead a free American syllable associated with the word jazz, it carries nothing. The -lene ending derives from the French -line and -lene of Marlene and Charlene and has no meaning of its own.
How the name formed
- yasamin
- Jasmine
- Jazlene
Related forms: Jazlyn · Yasamin · Jazmin
Pronouncing Jazlene
JAZ-leen
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Some families say jaz-LEEN with the weight at the end, which follows Marlene, and both are current.
Nicknames for Jazlene
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2008340 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #833reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −22.7%17 in 2025, from 22
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.
Jazlene in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jazlyn in English — spelling variant
- Yasamin in Persian — related form
- Jazmin in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jazlenes among us
people named Jazlene are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Jazlene
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jazlene
- #6546
- Jazlene on the 2025 chart
- #898
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jazlene went to 17 girls in 2025, but Jaslene is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 62, which makes it the 898th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,648 places above the chart.
- Jaslene45
- Jazlene17
About 1 girl in 25,924 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Jazlene 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 Lesli test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jazlene's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lesli climbed just as high around 1967, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lesli's path sketches the road Jazlene is walking now.
Jazlene 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
Jazlene beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jazlene in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Jasmine behind it supplies a real Persian flower name with a documented route.
- Jaz and Jazzy are both short, warm and independently established.
- Reads and spells straightforwardly from the sound.
- Jazlyn, Jazlynn and Jazleen all circulate and split the records.
- Two stress patterns compete and the spelling does not settle between them.
- The connection to Jasmine is by sound rather than by descent.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jazlenes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Jazlene are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jazlene?
- Jazlene is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jaslene is the more common one — 45 births in 2025 against 17 for Jazlene.
- How popular is the name Jazlene in 2025?
- Jazlene ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jazlene?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Jazlene — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jazlene with classmates?
- Jazlene will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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