Yasmin
- Pronunciation
- [Yas-min]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Jasmine
- Origin
- Arabic
About the Name Yasmin
Yasmin is the Arabic spelling of the jasmine flower name, derived from the Persian yasaman, which traveled into Arabic as yasameen before spreading across the Islamic world and beyond. The jasmine flower — celebrated for its intensely fragrant white blossoms — has been a symbol of grace, beauty, and sensory pleasure in Persian, Arabic, and South Asian cultures for more than a millennium. The name is widely used from Morocco to Indonesia, reflecting jasmine's pan-Islamic cultural resonance, and it arrived in English-speaking countries both through immigrant communities and through the broader Western interest in Arabic-origin names.
In SSA records, Yasmin first entered the female top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #324 in 2006, accumulating 12,395 top-1000 births across its tracked span. It has shown notable endurance, remaining on the chart through 2024 — where it sits at #917 with 289 births — after recording #907 with 304 births in 2022 and #859 with 311 births in 2023. That continued presence over more than two decades marks Yasmin as a name with genuine cultural depth rather than purely trend-dependent appeal.
The recorded variant is Yasmine, the French-influenced spelling that adds a final e and is equally common internationally. The choice between the two spellings often reflects family background: Yasmin leans into the Arabic orthographic tradition while Yasmine echoes the French and European jasmine flower name. Both share the same floral, fragrant heritage, offering parents a name that is globally recognizable, semantically beautiful, and linguistically graceful.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Yasmin
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Yasmin by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2006 with 1,018 girls named Yasmin (girl rank #324 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #959 for girls (269 US births). That's 635 places below its 2006 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Yasmin Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Yasmin the strongest states are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts | #519 | 108 |
| 2 | Connecticut | #536 | 24 |
| 3 | Oregon | #579 | 20 |
| 4 | Minnesota | #612 | 87 |
| 5 | Maryland | #710 | 48 |
| 6 | New York | #784 | 112 |
| 7 | New Jersey | #794 | 59 |
| 8 | Virginia | #806 | 67 |
| 9 | Ohio | #828 | 36 |
| 10 | Illinois | #843 | 51 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tennessee | #1,033 | 21 |
| 2 | North Carolina | #968 | 40 |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | #936 | 31 |
| 4 | Colorado | #932 | 17 |
| 5 | California | #893 | 212 |
| 6 | Arizona | #880 | 46 |
| 7 | Michigan | #871 | 42 |
| 8 | Georgia | #862 | 35 |
| 9 | Washington | #861 | 73 |
| 10 | Florida | #858 | 171 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Yasmin in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yasmine | Jasmine Flower. | Female | Arabic |
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