Entry № 4839 · Persian origin

Jasmine Jasmine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAZ-min /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"The jasmine flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "the jasmine flower".

Jasmine comes from the Persian yāsamīn (یاسمین) — the small, intensely fragrant white flower of the jasmine plant, prized across the Persian, Indian, and Arab worlds for centuries.

Jasmine entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1973 and rose dramatically with Disney's Aladdin (1992), whose princess heroine is named Jasmine. top 200. Yasmin and Yasmine are also covered as separate entries in this library.

The jasmine flower — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

یاسمین
Transliteration
Yāsamīn
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒæz.mɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jasmine stands.

Jasmine does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jasmines before her.

Real people
Jasmine Guy
American actress, A Different World.
born 1962
Jasmine Sanders
American model.
born 1991
In fiction
Jasmine
Princess heroine of Disney's Aladdin.
1992 film

Names connected to Jasmine.

The number behind Jasmine.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jasmine reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.