Jazmine
- Pronunciation
- [Jaz-mine]
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- A Flower Name From The Older Form Jessamine.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Jazmine
Jazmine is a modern American spelling variant of Jasmine (see separate entry on Jasmine for the Persian yasamin etymology — referring to the fragrant climbing flower). The Z-spelling Jazmine is essentially a 20th-century American/Spanish-American invention.
The various spellings (Jazmine, Jasmine, Jazmin, Jasmin, Yasmin) are tracked separately by SSA and represent the same underlying name. The Jazmine spelling specifically appeals to parents seeking a more visually distinctive form than the historical Jasmine. The name has been driven primarily by African-American and Spanish-American naming.
Notable bearers include American basketball player Jazmine Sullivan (using Sullivan as a surname, born 1987, the iconic American R&B singer); American actress Jazmine Pierce; the contemporary fictional Jazmine of various contemporary novels including the iconic comic-strip character Jazmine DuBois of Aaron McGruder's iconic comic strip The Boondocks; and various contemporary American social media influencers. Jazmine's American climb has been substantial: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 1990 to the US top 200 girls' rank by 2008 and the top 300 since. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the layered Persian-Arabic-Spanish-American pedigree, the in-built jasmine-flower fragrant register, and the popular three-syllable -ine ending family (Jazmine, Madeline, Coraline). Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and tonal warmth distinctive to multi-cultural names. The name reads as distinctly contemporary American. Common nicknames Jaz (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Jazzy, Mina, and the rare Mini each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Jazmine, Jasmine (the more popular American form), Jazmin (Spanish alternate), and Yasmin (Arabic alternate) have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Yasmin (Arabic), Yasmine (French), Jasmin (German), and the original Persian yasamin.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Jazmine
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Jazmine by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2006 with 1,529 girls named Jazmine (girl rank #227 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #993 for girls (255 US births). That's 766 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 Jazmine 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 Jazmine the strongest states are New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Mexico | #245 | 40 |
| 2 | Nevada | #394 | 63 |
| 3 | Arizona | #515 | 141 |
| 4 | Arkansas | #543 | 29 |
| 5 | California | #557 | 609 |
| 6 | Florida | #582 | 289 |
| 7 | Louisiana | #612 | 41 |
| 8 | Texas | #628 | 520 |
| 9 | Kentucky | #634 | 47 |
| 10 | Oregon | #640 | 22 |
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgia | #909 | 68 |
| 2 | North Carolina | #873 | 68 |
| 3 | New York | #843 | 141 |
| 4 | Pennsylvania | #839 | 59 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | #829 | 23 |
| 6 | Illinois | #827 | 89 |
| 7 | Michigan | #805 | 39 |
| 8 | Maryland | #796 | 27 |
| 9 | Wisconsin | #779 | 25 |
| 10 | Ohio | #766 | 105 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Jazmine in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmin | A Flower Name From The Older Form Jessamine. | Female | Arabic |
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Compare Jazmine to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Jazmine against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).