Yasmine
Feminine · Persian roots · “jasmine flower”
Yasmine is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 13,801 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Yasmine is the jasmine flower, carried west along the same road the flower itself traveled — Persian gardens, Arabic, then the languages of Europe. It has been on American records since the middle of the last century and is climbing again, while in France it is a thoroughly established choice. Three syllables that end on a long, held vowel: yaz-MEEN.
How old is the name Yasmine?
Yasmine first appears in US birth records in 1951 — 74 years ago. The typical Yasmine alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 13,500 people named Yasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yasmine most popular?
Yasmine peaked in 1997, reaching #385 nationally. Today it ranks #1183, 798 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
Yasmine appears on this list:
Works in French families too:
Where it comes from
From Yāsamīn (Persian) to Yasmine
The story of Yasmine
The word begins in Persian as yāsamīn, the name of the climbing white-flowered shrub, and passed into Arabic as yāsmīn, where it became a common given name for girls across the Arabic-speaking world. The same word traveled into medieval Latin and Old French as jasmin, which is how English got both the flower jasmine and the given name spelled with a J. Yasmine is the spelling that kept the older initial sound while taking a French final -e, and it is the standard form in France, where it charts steadily. In the United States both roads are visible at once: Yasmine, Yasmin, Yasmeen and Jasmine all sit in the records, the same name arriving by different routes.
Meaning
jasmine flower
From Persian yāsamīn, the name of the flowering vine, borrowed into Arabic as yāsmīn and from there into European languages.
How the name formed
- YāsamīnPersian
- YāsmīnArabic
- JasminOld French
- Yasmine / Jasmine
Related forms: Yasmin / ياسمين · Yasaman · Yasemin · Jasmine · Yasmine · Yasmin
Pronouncing Yasmine
yaz-MEEN
Stress on the final syllable is the usual pattern in French and Arabic. Some American families say YAZ-min instead, closer to the English word jasmine; both are heard, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people to.
Nicknames for Yasmine
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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
- 1951
- Most girls named
- 1999701 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #385reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%196 in 2025, from 196
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.
Yasmine in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Yasmin / ياسمين in Arabic — transliteration
- Yasaman in Persian — related form
- Yasemin in Turkish — related form
- Jasmine in English — related form
- Yasmine in French — same name
- Yasmin in Hebrew — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York. INSEE rounds every published count to the nearest five for statistical confidentiality; the ranks are calculated from the exact figures. International figures from INSEE. Sources
Yasmines among us
people named Yasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,200 born in 2025 was named Yasmine
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yasmine
- #1183
- Yasmine on the 2025 chart
- #733
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yasmine went to 196 girls in 2025, but Yazmine is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 229, which makes it the 733rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 450 places above the chart.
- Yasmine196
- Yazmine33
About 1 girl in 7,019 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 8,200 for Yasmine 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 Estell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yasmine's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Estell climbed just as high around 1910, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Estell's path sketches the road Yasmine is walking now.
Yasmine is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Yasmine is headed
Yasmine 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.
Yasmine beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yasmine in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Instantly recognizable meaning — jasmine is a flower most English speakers already know by name.
- Works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, French and English with only small changes to spelling or stress.
- Short forms already exist and are in real use: Yas, Yaz, Mina.
- Familiar in sound without being common in American classrooms, since Jasmine has done the work of making it legible.
- A documented history in the language that runs back well over a thousand years.
- Yasmin, Yasmeen, Yazmin and Jasmine are all in circulation, so she will spell it out often. Choosing the -ine ending means accepting a lifetime of gentle correction.
- Two stress patterns compete — yaz-MEEN and YAZ-min. Teachers and new acquaintances will guess, and the guess will not always match.
- In the United States she is unlikely to meet another, which some children love and others find tiring. In France, by contrast, it is an ordinary and well-worn name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yasmines are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,500 people named Yasmine are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yasmine?
- Yasmine is the most-used spelling in US records — 196 of the 229 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Yazmine.
- How popular is the name Yasmine in 2025?
- Yasmine ranks #1183 among US girl names in 2025, with 196 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yasmine?
- About 1 in every 8,200 US girls born in 2025 was named Yasmine — 196 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yasmine with classmates?
- Yasmine will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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