How to say it
JAS · mine
/ˈdʒæz.mɪn/
Feminine
Jasmine
Jasmine flower
What it means
From the Persian yasmin (the jasmine flower), through Arabic and into European languages. The English name comes via the flower.
Jasmine comes from the Persian yasmin (the fragrant white flower), borrowed into Arabic as yasamin and then into Latin and the European languages. The flower itself has long been a symbol of grace and fragrance across Persian poetry. As an English given name Jasmine surged in the late 1980s and 1990s, particularly after Disney's Aladdin (1992); Princess Jasmine gave the name a generation of English-speaking parents a clear cultural anchor. It's been in the US top 200 since the early 1990s. Jaz and Jazzy are the common shorts.
Popularity over time
peaked at #23 in 1993, currently #206 in 2025.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, names given to at least 5 babies in a year, 1880–present. See where the names are moving
Heads-up notes
- Pop culture
Disney's Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) is the dominant English-language association; the original Persian flower symbolism is the deeper one.
Who's worn it
Historical figures, characters, and public faces who share the name. The cultural surface, for whatever weight you want to give it.
- Princess Jasmine Disney's Aladdin (1992), the first Disney princess of Middle Eastern background
- Jasmine Guy American actress, A Different World
Spelling variants
- Yasmin
- Yasmine
- Jasmin
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