Yazmin
Feminine · “jasmine flower”
Yazmin is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 9,344 girls against 7 boys since 1880.
Yazmin is jasmine spelled the Spanish way, and the flower's name is Persian — yasmin, which Arabic carried west and Europe borrowed whole.
How old is the name Yazmin?
Yazmin first appears in US birth records in 1958 — 67 years ago. The typical Yazmin alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 9,200 people named Yazmin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Yazmin most popular?
Yazmin peaked in 2006, reaching #536 nationally. Today it ranks #1643, 1,107 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
From yasmin to Yazmin
The story of Yazmin
Jasmine reached the Mediterranean from Persia and India and the word traveled with it. Yasmin and Yasmine are long-established across the Persian- and Arabic-speaking world; the Spanish Yazmín is a separate arrival through the same word. Spanish-speaking families brought Yazmin to the United States, where it is in current use.
Meaning
jasmine flower
From the Persian yasmin, the jasmine flower, borrowed into Arabic as yasmin and thence into Spanish as jazmín and English as jasmine. The plant came west along the same trade routes as the word. The Persian is ordinary and the meaning undisputed.
How the name formed
- yasmin
- jazmín
- Yazmin
Related forms: یاسمین · Yazmín · Yasmin · Jasmine
Pronouncing Yazmin
yaz-MEEN
Two syllables, stress on the second. Spanish marks it Yazmín; English Jasmine is JAZ-min with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Yazmin
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
- 1958
- Most girls named
- 2006561 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #536reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- +11.5%126 in 2025, from 113
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.
Yazmin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- یاسمین in Persian — transliteration
- Yazmín in Spanish — same name
- Yasmin in Arabic — related form
- Jasmine in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Yazmins among us
people named Yazmin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,756 born in 2025 was named Yazmin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Yazmin
- #1643
- Yazmin on the 2025 chart
- #590
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Yazmin went to 126 girls in 2025, but Yasmin and Yazmyn are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 400, which makes it the 590th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,053 places above the chart.
- Yasmin269
- Yazmin126
- Yazmyn5
About 1 girl in 4,018 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,756 for Yazmin 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 Lavon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yazmin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lavon climbed just as high around 1934, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lavon's path sketches the road Yazmin is walking now.
Yazmin 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 Yazmin is headed
Yazmin 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.
Yazmin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Yazmin 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.
- It is close to standard in Persian, Arabic and Spanish at once.
- Jasmine is the form English speakers will assume, and it is said differently.
- The accent is routinely dropped in American records.
- Several spellings of the sound are in use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Yazmins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 9,200 people named Yazmin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Yazmin?
- Yazmin is one of 3 recorded spellings. Yasmin is the more common one — 269 births in 2025 against 126 for Yazmin.
- How popular is the name Yazmin in 2025?
- Yazmin ranks #1643 among US girl names in 2025, with 126 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Yazmin?
- About 1 in every 12,756 US girls born in 2025 was named Yazmin — 126 in all.
- Will my child share the name Yazmin with classmates?
- Yazmin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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