Żasmina
A rare respelling of Jasmina, with Ż where the J usually sits. The name goes back to jasmine, the flower. Almost no one in Poland carries this version: most people here have never met one.
Żasmina Pronunciation
Żasmina is pronounced zhahs-MEE-nah (/ʐasˈmina/).
What Żasmina means
Where Żasmina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Żasmina comes from the Latin Jasminum, the botanical name for the jasmine flower. The word reached Latin from Persian yasamin, passing through Arabic before it settled into European gardens and dictionaries. In Polish the same flower is jaśmin, and the name keeps that scent close.
The spelling żasmina is one of several ways Polish writes the sound. Jaśmina and jasmina are the more common variants, and all three point back to the same white, heavily perfumed blossom. The soft ż at the front is a phonetic choice, a way of catching how the name is said out loud.
A girl called Żasmina will sometimes spell her name twice at the urząd, once for the clerk and once for the form. That small friction belongs to the name.
The meaning stays simple. Żasmina means jasmine, the flower, and nothing in the Latin root hides that.
How many people are named Żasmina
1 in 3757306 women in Poland is named Żasmina. 6 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #24741 among female names.