Yaslin
Feminine
Yaslin is Yasmin with one consonant changed, and the substitution is the whole story. Swapping the m for an l keeps the syllable count, keeps the stress, keeps the vowels — and converts a Persian flower name into something with no source at all. It is the smallest possible edit that produces a new name.
How old is the name Yaslin?
Yaslin first appears in US birth records in 1993 — 32 years ago. The typical Yaslin alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 600 people named Yaslin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yaslin most popular?
Yaslin peaked in 2010, reaching #4306 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 2,827 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
Where it comes from
From yāsamīn to Yaslin
Our story of Yaslin
Most respellings leave the sounds alone and rearrange the letters. A smaller and more interesting class changes one sound, and the results behave differently: they are new names rather than new spellings, and they can be traced by ear back to a parent that a dictionary will not connect them to. Jasmin gives Jaslin, Yasmin gives Yaslin, Kaitlin gives Katrin. The l is chosen because -lin and -lyn were already the most productive endings in American naming, so the substitution does two jobs at once — it breaks the link to the source word and it plugs the name into an ending everybody recognizes. Yaslin peaks in 2010, in a Spanish-speaking American context where Yasmin, Yaritza and Yamileth were all in use, and where the Y- opening was doing the same identifying work.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Yasmin is Persian yāsamīn, the jasmine flower, and that etymology is settled for Yasmin. Yaslin is not a variant spelling of it — the consonant is different, so the word is different. The -lin ending is the same detached suffix found in Kaitlin and Jaslin. No meaning can be given for the compound, and sources that assign it jasmine's meaning are ignoring the letter that changed.
How the name formed
- yāsamīn
- Yasmin
- Yaslin
Pronouncing Yaslin
yahs-LEEN
Two syllables with the stress on the second in Spanish, and both vowels full. English speakers say YAZ-lin with front stress and a reduced second vowel, which is a different rhythm. The initial Y is a glide in both.
Nicknames for Yaslin
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
- 1993
- Most girls named
- 200934 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4306reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- −37.5%15 in 2025, from 24
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.
Yaslin in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Yaslins among us
people named Yaslin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Yaslin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yaslin
- #7133
- Yaslin on the 2025 chart
- #874
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yaslin went to 15 girls in 2025, but Yazlin, Yazlyn and Yazlynn and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 86, which makes it the 874th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6,259 places above the chart.
- Yazlin25
- Yazlyn21
- Yaslin15
- Yazlynn13
- Yaslyn12
About 1 girl in 18,689 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 107,151 for Yaslin 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 Marcos test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yaslin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcos climbed just as high around 1926, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcos's path sketches the road Yaslin is walking now.
Yaslin 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
Yaslin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yaslin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It sounds close enough to Yasmin to need no explanation.
- The Y- opening is uncommon and reads as distinctly Latin American.
- It is short, two syllables, and easy to say in both languages.
- It has no meaning, and the jasmine reading belongs to a different name.
- The stress placement differs between English and Spanish speakers.
- Yaslin, Yaslyn and Jaslin are all in the records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yaslins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Yaslin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yaslin?
- Yaslin is one of 5 recorded spellings. Yazlin is the more common one — 25 births in 2025 against 15 for Yaslin.
- How popular is the name Yaslin in 2025?
- Yaslin ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yaslin?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Yaslin — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yaslin with classmates?
- Yaslin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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