Jasmine
Meaning
jasmine flower
Goes by Jas
The story
Jasmine is a flower name with a long journey. English took the word through Arabic from Persian yasamin, the fragrant climbing plant used in perfume, and the Persian word was already a personal name. In the United States, Jasmine first registered in the 1960s and gathered momentum in the 1970s, especially among African American families. It climbed through the 1980s and reached its high point in the 1990s, the decade that opened with Disney's Aladdin and Princess Jasmine in 1992. The film arrived while the name was already rising, so it is better read as part of the moment than as a single cause. Use eased after the peak but never vanished. Jasmine remains a rare kind of nature name: ancient in its word history, international in its forms, and tied in America to a very specific stretch of modern culture.
Jasmine around the world
One shared root links 6 names across 3 languages.
Shared root: from Persian yasamin, the jasmine flower, entering English through Old French jessemin
The constellation
More branches
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jasmine peaked in the 1990s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
6,032 people · the #2,407 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 33,333 · median age 5
Among people named Jasmine living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 2,561 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Jasmine
Most people given the name Jasmine in the United States were born between 1990 and 2009. The Jasmine you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Jasmine deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Jasmine truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Jasmine fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Jasmine travels
Dual-language · resonant for Filipino American families since sampaguita, the Philippines' national flower, is a jasmine variety; the English flower name quietly carries the same bloom
Keep exploring
Nicknames for Jasmine · Dual-language baby names · Filipino baby names · Iconic movie character names
Does Jasmine fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Jasmine to your family’s tree →