Jasmine (given name)

Jasmine (sometimes spelled Yasmin, closer to the pronunciation of the Persian name it is related to) is a feminine given name. It refers to the flowering plant jasmine.^[1] The name has been popular in a number of countries in recent years. In the United States, it first entered the top 1,000 list of most popular names in 1973. It has remained among the top 100 names given to American girls since 1986, and was ranked at No. 43 in 2008.^[2] Variant Yasemin was the most popular name given to baby girls born in Turkey in 2008-2009. Variant Yasmin was ranked among the top 10 names given to Brazilian girls in 2009^[3] and is also very popular in Israel, and variant Jazmín (pronounced Hasmin) was among the top 5 names given to girls in Córdoba, Argentina in 2009.^[4] Variant Jázmin is in among the top 10 names given to girls born in Hungary. Variant Yasmine is popular in Brussels, Belgium.^[5]

People with the given name

• Jasmine (family), a prominent American entrepreneurial and philanthropic family
• Jasmine (Finnish singer), a Finnish singer and EuroVision Song Contest participant
• Jasmine (Japanese singer), a Japanese singer
• Jasmine (Taiwanese singer), the English name of Taiwanese singer Ting Chu
• Jasmine Guinness, a Irish designer and fashion model
• Jasmine Harman, an English TV presenter
• Jasmin Mäntylä, a Finnish model and singer
• Jasmine Richards, a Canadian actress
• Jasmine (American singer), an American singer songwriter
• Jasmine Sinclair, a British bondage model
• Jasmin St. Claire, a porn star and wrestler
• Jasmine Trias, a Filipino American singer
• Jasmine You (1979–2009), a Japanese musician
• Jasmine Villegas, an American teen R&B pop singer

Fictional characters

• Jasmine, a character on the television series Angel
• Jasmine, a character in the Pokémon universe
• Princess Jasmine of Agrabah, the princess in Disney's Aladdin
• Jasmine, a character from Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Protoman
• Jasmine Thomas, a character from the soap opera Emmerdale
• Jasmine, a lioness from the movie Secondhand Lions
• Jasmine, the name of a semi-recurring character in the TVB show Forensic Heroes
• Jasmine, a superaging woman who dies in two days in the film Life in a Day
• Jasmine (aka Marika Reimon), main character from the 2004 Japanese tokusatsu television series, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger
• Jasmine, a forest girl from Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest series

Notes