Yasmin is the Persian word for the jasmine flower (یاسمین), which spread along the Silk Road from Persia into Arabic (yāsamīn), Turkish, Urdu, and eventually into European languages — giving English the word "jasmine" itself.
Yasmin is one of the most popular girl names in the Arab world, in Iran, in Turkey, and across the South Asian diaspora. In the West, the variant spelling Jasmine (popularised by the 1992 Disney film Aladdin) has been more common, but the original Yasmin has been quietly rising.
It is one of the few flower names that carries cross-cultural recognition without needing to switch spellings.
Yasmin 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yasmin reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.