Jazmin
Meaning
variant of Jasmine, the flower name, via Arabic from Persian yasamin
The story
Jazmin is a variant of Jasmine, the English word for the climbing plant whose fragrant flowers are used for perfumes, a word that arrived via Arabic from the Persian yasamin, itself a Persian name. Behind the Name dates the original's American arc: steady growth from the 1970s, especially among African Americans, and a peak in the early 1990s shortly after Disney's Aladdin featured a princess by the name. Jazmin's own line runs a step behind: about 350 girls in the 1970s, about 3,000 in the 1980s, about 13,300 in the 1990s, and about 17,200 in the 2000s, the decade after the original's dated peak, then about 7,900 in the 2010s and about 2,600 so far this decade. A Persian flower on an Arabic route, and a spelling that gave it a second American bloom.
Jazmin 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
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Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Jazmin peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure.
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Popularity in Brazil
104 people · the #40,166 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 13
Among people named Jazmin living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Jazmin
Most people given the name Jazmin in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Jazmin deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Jazmin 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 Jazmin fits with your family’s names and surname.
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