Yasemi̇n
A Turkish name that carries the word for jasmine, the flower. Only 39 women in Poland hold it, and no girl has been given it in years: most Poles will never meet one.
Yasemi̇n Pronunciation
Yasemi̇n is pronounced ih-AH-semi̇n (/ɨˈasɛmi̇n/).
What Yasemi̇n means
Where Yasemi̇n comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasemin is the Turkish name for jasmine, the white flowering shrub. The word arrived in Turkish from Persian yāsamīn, and the plant traveled the same road, carried west from Persia and South Asia long before the name did. Its origin sits outside Turkish, in an older loan. The meaning has stayed literal for a long time: jasmine, the flower.
In Turkey the name is common. It is given without fuss, and it keeps the sense of the flower with no hidden layer. A Polish reader knows the same plant as jaśmin, the small white blooms on a garden shrub.
On a school register in Poland, Yasemin usually points to a family with Turkish ties. The spelling holds Turkish letters that forms at the urząd often flatten. Say it and you have named the flower jaśmin.
How many people are named Yasemi̇n
1 in 578047 women in Poland is named Yasemi̇n. 39 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6292 among female names.
Yasemi̇n as a middle name
Yasemi̇n is a first name for 39 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 91/9 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4488th, between Wodzisława (4) and Yee (4).
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#4486 Więcesława4
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#4487 Wodzisława4
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#4488 Yasemi̇n4
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#4489 Yee4
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#4490 Yehudith4