Jasmin: Meaning of Baby Name Jasmin

About the Name Jasmin

Jasmin is a flower name derived from the Arabic yāsamīn, which entered Persian as yāsaman and travelled through Old French as jassemin into English. The jasmine plant, prized across the Middle East, South Asia, and the Mediterranean for its intensely fragrant white blossoms, lent its name to a tradition of floral given names that flourished in the Victorian era and has never fully faded. The name is recorded as "from the older form Jessamine," reflecting the early English variant Jessamine that was common before the Arabic-rooted jasmine spelling consolidated. As a given name, Jasmin offers a slightly more international visual profile than the anglicised Jasmine, dropping the terminal e in the manner of many Continental European forms.

The floral name tradition to which Jasmin belongs — alongside Rose, Lily, Violet, and Jasmine — draws on the symbolic language of flowers developed in Victorian culture, where the jasmine blossom carried associations of grace, elegance, and sweetness. The Arabic origin also gives the name cross-cultural resonance, making it a comfortable choice in families with Middle Eastern, South Asian, or Mediterranean heritage as well as in purely English-speaking contexts.

Jasmin first entered the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and peaked at #181 in 2004, accumulating 20,612 top-1000 births before dropping out of the charts after 2016, when it ranked #957 with 284 births. The recorded variant is Jazmine.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Jasmin

1,165

Arabic baby names in our dictionary

466

Arabic female names

275

6-letter J-names in our dictionary

525

J-female names total

2000–2016

years of US SSA records (17 total)

20,612

total US births named Jasmin (all years)

US Popularity History (2000–2016)

📉 Falling fast: Jasmin dropped 535 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#422 in 2011 → #957 in 2016).

Annual US births named Jasmin by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2006 with 1,945 girls named Jasmin (girl rank #182 that year).

Where it stands today: in 2016, ranked #957 for girls (284 US births). That's 775 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.

Where in the US Is Jasmin 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 Jasmin the strongest states are Massachusetts, Arizona, California.

Strongest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Massachusetts	#795	31
2	Arizona	#824	31
3	California	#828	367
4	Maryland	#888	17
5	New Jersey	#932	39
6	Florida	#938	65
7	New York	#952	73
8	Texas	#1,008	117

Weakest girls-name states

#	State	Avg rank	Births
1	Texas	#1,008	117
2	New York	#952	73
3	Florida	#938	65
4	New Jersey	#932	39
5	Maryland	#888	17
6	California	#828	367
7	Arizona	#824	31
8	Massachusetts	#795	31

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jasmin in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

Variant Forms

Name	Meaning	Gender	Origin
Jazmine	A Flower Name From The Older Form Jessamine.	Female	French

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