Yasemin
Turkish for jasmine, the flower. Most Poles have never met one: only three newborn girls got it last year, though after years of near-silence the count is starting to climb.
Yasemin Pronunciation
Yasemin is pronounced ih-ah-SE-meen (/ɨaˈsɛmin/).
What Yasemin means
Where Yasemin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasemin is the Turkish name for the jasmine flower. The word travelled a long way before it reached Turkish. It grew from the Persian yasaman, the same root that gave English "jasmine" and Polish "jaśmin". So the name and the flower share one family across many languages.
In Turkey the flower blooms white and scents the evening air, and the name stayed close to that image. Yasemin means jasmine, plainly and directly. There are no common diminutives attached to it, no shortened pet form that took over. People carry the full name.
On a Polish class register, Yasemin sits among Turkish and mixed families now living here. The teacher reads it, and the sound is soft. A girl named Yasemin answers to a flower.
How many people are named Yasemin
1 in 181805 women in Poland is named Yasemin. 124 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3022 among female names.
Yasemin's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1397 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where Yasemin is most popular
Yasemin is most popular in Łódź, 1605% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Łódź2 girls born+1605%
Yasemin as a middle name
Yasemin is a first name for 124 women in Poland and a middle name for another 25, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1439th, between Thị (25) and Zipora (25).
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#1437 Tereza25
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#1438 Thị25
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#1439 Yasemin25
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#1440 Zipora25
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#1441 Zsuzsanna25