Tasnim
Feminine · “a spring in paradise”
Tasnim is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 856 girls against 10 boys since 1880.
Tasnim is a spring in paradise, named in the Qur'an — the water that the nearest to God drink pure and everyone else drinks mixed into their wine.
How old is the name Tasnim?
Tasnim first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Tasnim alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 800 people named Tasnim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tasnim most popular?
Tasnim peaked in 2024, reaching #3575 nationally. Today it ranks #3780, 205 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Tasnim
The passage in the eighty-third chapter describes a sealed wine mixed with water from Tasnim, a spring the nearest drink from directly. Arabic naming takes several names from that vocabulary — Tasnim, Salsabil, Kawthar — each naming a water of paradise. Tasnim is used across the Arab world and South Asia and reaches American and British records with families from both.
Meaning
a spring in paradise
From an Arabic root connected to height; the Qur'an names Tasnim as a fountain in the garden, and commentators read the word as describing water that comes from above. It is one of a small set of names taken directly from paradise imagery.
Pronouncing Tasnim
tas-NEEM
Two syllables with the stress on the long second. English speakers often say TAZ-nim.
Nicknames for Tasnim
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 202443 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3575reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −9.3%39 in 2025, from 43
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.
Tasnim in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tasneem in Arabic — spelling variant
- Tasnim in Urdu — same name
- Tasnim in Persian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, New York, California.
Tasnims among us
people named Tasnim are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 41,212 born in 2025 was named Tasnim
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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What happens to a name after it peaks
The Samar test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tasnim's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Samar climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Samar's path sketches the road Tasnim is walking now.
Tasnim 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 Tasnim is headed
Tasnim looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 18% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Tasnim beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tasnim in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning drawn directly from a specific and much-recited passage.
- Six letters and two syllables, easy to write and to say.
- Recognized across the Arab world and South Asia.
- Tasneem is the other standard spelling and relatives may prefer it.
- The stress moves to the front in English mouths.
- It is clearly marked as a Muslim name, which is a fact to know rather than a problem.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tasnims are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Tasnim are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tasnim in 2025?
- Tasnim ranks #3780 among US girl names in 2025, with 39 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tasnim?
- About 1 in every 41,212 US girls born in 2025 was named Tasnim — 39 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tasnim with classmates?
- Tasnim will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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