Yasmin

What Yasmin means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Yasmin yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2006, with 1,018 babies; 269 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Yasmin?

US: Steady: #930 in 2015, #955 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #230 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 1,018 girls got the name (#324 that year). First in the US records in 1949.

How common

• About 1 in 5,975 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,849 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.43 per 1,000 girls), MA (0.37 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.35 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Yasmin is #955 in the US and #318 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Yasmin were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Yasmine196 US · 72 E&W
• Yasmeen121 US · 29 E&W
• Yazmin126 US · 8 E&W
• Yazmine33 US
• Yazmyn5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Yasmin

Girls

• Nadia#565“Nadia; tender”^*
• Sarah#90“masters, princes”^*
• Fatima#330Spanish and Portuguese, meaning “abstainer”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Laila#413“night”^*

For a brother

• Omar#260Editor’s note Down from #217 in 2015 to #260 in 2025 in the US
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Malik#437Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1996, with 4,026 babies; 724 in 2025
• Ahmad#669“praiseworthy”^*
• Nasir#486Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #486 vs #2,133 in 2025
• Ahmed#703Variant of Ahmad, meaning “praiseworthy”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Yasmin’s. Rank is US 2025.