# Jasmine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jasmine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Persian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Jas, Jazz, Jaz, Jassy |
| Variant spellings | Jasmin, Jazmin, Jazmine, Jessamine, Jasmina |
| US babies named this | 259,889 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,263 / 258,626 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 35,682, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,710 | 72 |
| 2012 | 3,394 | 83 |
| 2013 | 3,066 | 103 |
| 2014 | 3,045 | 99 |
| 2015 | 2,813 | 110 |
| 2016 | 2,657 | 122 |
| 2017 | 2,274 | 130 |
| 2018 | 2,142 | 137 |
| 2019 | 2,110 | 131 |
| 2020 | 1,936 | 140 |
| 2021 | 1,724 | 170 |
| 2022 | 1,685 | 177 |
| 2023 | 1,596 | 189 |
| 2024 | 1,530 | 199 |
| 2025 | 1,481 | 206 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 20 | 3,758 |
| 2000 | 24 | 3,469 |
| 2001 | 16 | 4,766 |
| 2002 | 31 | 2,973 |
| 2003 | 19 | 4,339 |
| 2004 | 41 | 2,614 |
| 2005 | 19 | 4,546 |
| 2006 | 14 | 5,910 |
| 2007 | 17 | 5,300 |
| 2008 | 12 | 6,940 |
| 2009 | 10 | 7,957 |
| 2010 | 6 | 11,344 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,453 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,946 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,214 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,429 | 42 |
| 2012 | 1,313 | 45 |
| 2013 | 1,132 | 50 |
| 2014 | 1,155 | 49 |
| 2015 | 1,182 | 48 |
| 2016 | 1,018 | 59 |
| 2017 | 871 | 65 |
| 2018 | 703 | 75 |
| 2019 | 752 | 73 |
| 2020 | 678 | 78 |
| 2021 | 583 | 92 |
| 2022 | 516 | 94 |
| 2023 | 501 | 98 |
| 2024 | 501 | 92 |
| 2025 | 455 | 102 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: يَاسَمِين
- Chinese: 賈絲明 /贾丝明
- Danish: Jasmin
- Finnish: Jasmin
- French: Jasmine
- German: Jasmin
- Hebrew: יַסְמִין
- Hungarian: Jázmin
- Italian: Gelsomina
- Polish: Jaśmina
- Portuguese: Jasmim
- Russian: Жасми́н, Жасми́на, Ясми́н, Ясми́на
- Spanish: Jazmín
- Swedish: Jasmine
- Turkish: Yasemin

## People named Jasmine

- Jasmine Guy, American actress (born 1962)
- Jasmine Thompson, British singer
- Jasmine Borrero Tookes, American model
- Jasmine Villegass, American singer and actress
- Jasmine Moore, American long jumper and triple jumper
- Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
- Jasmine Sandlas, American-Indian singer
- Jasmine Cephas-Jones, British actress
- Jasmine Jones, American athlete
- Jasmine Byrne, American pornographic actress
- Jasmine, Finnish singer
- Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.