Yasmina
Feminine · “jasmine flower”
Yasmina is jasmine with a Slavic and Arabic ending, and the flower's name is Persian — yasmin, which traveled west with the plant itself.
How old is the name Yasmina?
Yasmina first appears in US birth records in 1969 — 56 years ago. The typical Yasmina is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,600 people named Yasmina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yasmina most popular?
Yasmina peaked in 2024, reaching #1719 nationally. Today it ranks #1855, 136 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yasmin to Yasmina
The story of Yasmina
Jasmine reached the Mediterranean from Persia and India along the trade routes, and the word traveled with it. Yasmina is standard across North Africa, the Levant and Bosnia, where Ottoman rule left a stratum of Arabic and Persian names. Emigration brought it to America, where it is in current use.
Meaning
jasmine flower
From the Persian yasmin, the jasmine flower, borrowed into Arabic and thence into every European language. The -a ending is used across Arabic, Bosnian and Spanish naming. The Persian is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- yasmin
- Yasmina
Related forms: ياسمينة · Jasmina · Yasmine
Pronouncing Yasmina
yaz-MEE-nah
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Bosnian Jasmina says it the same way with a y sound at the front.
Nicknames for Yasmina
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
- 1969
- Most girls named
- 2024118 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1719reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −9.3%107 in 2025, from 118
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.
Yasmina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- ياسمينة in Arabic — transliteration
- Jasmina in Bosnian — related form
- Yasmine in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan.
Yasminas among us
people named Yasmina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,021 born in 2025 was named Yasmina
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 Karrington test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yasmina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Karrington climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Karrington's path sketches the road Yasmina is walking now.
Yasmina is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yasmina is headed
Yasmina looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 36% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Yasmina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yasmina 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.
- Mina and Yas are two short forms, both with real use.
- It is standard across Arabic, Bosnian and Spanish naming.
- Jasmina with a J is the Bosnian and Slavic spelling.
- Jasmine is the form English speakers will assume.
- Several transliterations are in circulation.
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Feminine · #1855 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Yasminas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Yasmina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Yasmina in 2025?
- Yasmina ranks #1855 among US girl names in 2025, with 107 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yasmina?
- About 1 in every 15,021 US girls born in 2025 was named Yasmina — 107 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yasmina with classmates?
- Yasmina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Yasmina
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