Yasmeen
Feminine · “jasmine flower”
Yasmeen is jasmine, and the word is Persian — yasmin, which Arabic carried west and every European language borrowed whole.
How old is the name Yasmeen?
Yasmeen first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Yasmeen alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 6,100 people named Yasmeen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yasmeen most popular?
Yasmeen peaked in 1997, reaching #723 nationally. Today it ranks #1692, 969 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
Where it comes from
From yasmin to Yasmeen
The story of Yasmeen
Jasmine reached the Mediterranean from Persia and India, and the word traveled with the plant along the trade routes. Yasmin, Yasmeen and Yasmine are long-established across the Persian- and Arabic-speaking world. Emigration brought them to Britain and America, where Yasmeen appears in the registers and is in current use.
Meaning
jasmine flower
From the Persian yasmin, the jasmine flower, borrowed into Arabic as yasmin and thence into Spanish, French, Italian and English. The plant traveled the same route as the word. The Persian is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- yasmin
- Yasmeen
Related forms: یاسمین · Yasmin · Yasmine · Jasmine
Pronouncing Yasmeen
yaz-MEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. English Jasmine is JAZ-min with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Yasmeen
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
- 1970
- Most girls named
- 1997296 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #723reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +17.5%121 in 2025, from 103
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.
Yasmeen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- یاسمین in Persian — transliteration
- Yasmin in English — spelling variant
- Yasmine in Arabic — spelling variant
- Jasmine in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Michigan, New York.
Yasmeens among us
people named Yasmeen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,283 born in 2025 was named Yasmeen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Karri test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yasmeen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karri climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karri's path sketches the road Yasmeen is walking now.
Yasmeen 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 Yasmeen is headed
Yasmeen 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.
Yasmeen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yasmeen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The flower meaning is concrete, transparent and undisputed.
- The word's route from Persia to Europe is a genuinely good piece of trade history.
- Yas and Mina are two short forms, both with real use.
- At least four transliterations are in common use.
- Jasmine is the form English speakers will assume.
- The stress placement differs from the English form.
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Feminine · #1692 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yasmeens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,100 people named Yasmeen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yasmeen in 2025?
- Yasmeen ranks #1692 among US girl names in 2025, with 121 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yasmeen?
- About 1 in every 13,283 US girls born in 2025 was named Yasmeen — 121 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yasmeen with classmates?
- Yasmeen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yasmeen
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