Jazlyne
Feminine · “Persian yasamin”
Jasmine is Persian. The flower was cultivated in Iran long before Europe saw it, and the word traveled with the plant through Arabic and French into English, which makes it one of the very few Persian words to become a common English name.
How old is the name Jazlyne?
Jazlyne first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Jazlyne alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 500 people named Jazlyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jazlyne most popular?
Jazlyne peaked in 2008, reaching #2887 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 7,220 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yasamin to Jazlyne
The story of Jazlyne
Jasmine reached Europe as a plant and a word together, carried west from Persia through the Arab world and into Mediterranean gardens, and English took the French form in the sixteenth century. As a personal name it is much later: Yasmin and Yasmine were long established in Persian and Arabic use, while English used the flower name only from the nineteenth century, and it became an American favorite after 1992, when Disney's Aladdin gave the name to its heroine. What happened next is the standard American sequence: the base name saturates, the first syllable detaches as Jaz, and the fragment gets recombined with the productive endings. Jazlyn, Jazlyne, Jazmyn and Jazlynn are all products of that stage, and by then the flower has dropped out of the name entirely.
Meaning
Persian yasamin, the jasmine flower
Jasmine is from Persian yasamin, through Arabic yasmin and French jasmin. Jazlyne is a modern American formation that clips the first syllable to Jaz and adds the -lyn ending, so the flower is present only in the opening consonants. The peak is 2008.
How the name formed
- yasamin
- Jasmine
- Jazlyn
- Jazlyne
Related forms: Yasamin · Yasmin · Jazlyn
Pronouncing Jazlyne
JAZ-lin
Two syllables, stress on the first. The final e is silent; Jazlyn, Jazlynn and Jazlyne are homophones.
Nicknames for Jazlyne
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
- 1996
- Most girls named
- 200861 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2887reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- +80.0%9 in 2025, 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.
Jazlyne in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yasamin in Persian — related form
- Yasmin in Arabic — related form
- Jazlyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Jazlynes among us
people named Jazlyne are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Jazlyne
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jazlyne
- #10107
- Jazlyne on the 2025 chart
- #916
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jazlyne went to 9 girls in 2025, but Jasline, Jazlynne and Jaslyne are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 44, which makes it the 916th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,191 places above the chart.
- Jasline18
- Jazlynne11
- Jazlyne9
- Jaslyne6
About 1 girl in 36,529 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 178,585 for Jazlyne 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 Parisa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jazlyne's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Parisa climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Parisa's path sketches the road Jazlyne is walking now.
Jazlyne 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
Jazlyne beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jazlyne in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jaz and Jazzy are lively, established short forms.
- Two syllables with a sharp opening consonant.
- The flower name behind it is universally recognized.
- Several spellings compete and none is standard.
- The final e adds a letter and no sound.
- The 2008 peak dates it to one decade.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jazlynes are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Jazlyne are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jazlyne?
- Jazlyne is one of 4 recorded spellings. Jasline is the more common one — 18 births in 2025 against 9 for Jazlyne.
- How popular is the name Jazlyne in 2025?
- Jazlyne ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jazlyne?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Jazlyne — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jazlyne with classmates?
- Jazlyne will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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