Yazmin
- Pronunciation
- [Yaz-min]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Jasmine Flower.
- Origin
- Arabic
About the Name Yazmin
Yazmin is a phonetic spelling of Jasmine, from the Persian yasmin, the fragrant jasmine flower whose name traveled into Arabic, Spanish, and English over the centuries. The Y-initial form reflects the original Persian and Arabic sound more closely, giving this beloved floral name a fresh, slightly exotic spin while preserving its sweet, blossoming meaning and its associations of fragrance and beauty.
Its appeal lies in that fragrant imagery paired with a distinctive look. Yazmin reads as both familiar and individual, a flower name with a personalized twist that found special favor among Hispanic-American and Arabic-heritage families. Recorded variants include Yasmeen and Yasmine, fuller spellings of the same lovely sound, giving parents a small range of ways to capture its soft, perfumed elegance.
Yazmin first entered the US Social Security top-1000 for girls in 2000 and held a place there for a decade, reaching its peak in 2006 at rank #536. It was last recorded in 2011 at #912, having stood at #749 as recently as 2009, and accumulated 4,655 girls across that run. That pattern marks it as a fragrant, of-its-decade spelling that bloomed brightest across the 2000s before gracefully receding from the top-1000 — a flower name with a distinctive twist and a sweet, blossoming meaning at its heart.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Yazmin
US Popularity History (2000–2011)
Annual US births named Yazmin by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2006 with 561 girls named Yazmin (girl rank #536 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2011, ranked #912 for girls (287 US births). That's 376 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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