Jasmine

Jasmine meaning

Jasmine is a Christian and international girl's name of English origin (from Persian).

The jasmine flower (Persian yāsaman, via Arabic and French)

Jasmine is the English name of the fragrant flower and the English form of the name Yasmin. The word came into English from French jasmin, which took it from Arabic yāsamīn, itself borrowed from Persian. Steingass's Persian dictionary gives yāsaman and yāsam as jasmine or jessamine, with compounds such as yāsaman-bū, "scented like jasmine". In India the white jasmine, mogra in Hindi and malli in Tamil, is woven into garlands and worn in the hair, so the name carries a familiar local image as well as an international one. Name lists give Jasmine simply as the flower. In India it is used as an English given name, including in Christian families, while Muslim families also use Yasmin.

Source: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary (1892), p. 1526 · entry yāsaman (ياسمن) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Steingass, yāsaman, p. 1526 · Wiktionary, jasmine (etymology)

Popularity abroad

• #206 United States, girls 2025 (down 7 from 199 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #102 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Jasmine · Jasmin · Jazmine

Related names

Also meaning flower

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