Jasmine

Where Jasmine comes from

From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).
— Wiktionary's entry for Jasmine
  • Persian
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,951 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1993
    Peak, #23
    12,063 babies named Jasmine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1996
    Jasmine Camacho-Quinn born
    Puerto Rican hurdler
  4. 1996
    Jasmine Paolini born
    Italian tennis player
  5. 2008
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #43.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Persian.
Namesakes
  • Jasmine Paolini · Italian tennis player, born 1996
  • Jasmine Camacho-Quinn · Puerto Rican hurdler, born 1996
  • Jasmine Guy · American actress, born 1962
  • Jasmine Thompson · British singer, born 2000
  • Jasmine Trinca · Italian actress, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.