Yasmin
From Hebrew, where it names the jasmine flower. In Poland it stays rare and is fading further, given to only a handful of girls each year: most Poles have never met a Yasmin.
Yasmin Pronunciation
Yasmin is pronounced ih-AHS-meen (/ɨˈasmin/).
What Yasmin means
Where Yasmin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasmin comes from Hebrew, where the word names the jasmine flower. The short meaning stays close to that root, jasmine, the white blossom that opens after dark and scents the air near it.
The name belongs, in feeling, to Arabic. Jasmine climbs the walls of gardens from Damascus to Tunis, and the flower has long stood for hospitality and the cool of evening. Yasmin moved through that world, so the name arrives in Poland already fragrant with a southern association.
It carries no diminutive. On a school register or an official form at the urząd, Yasmin appears whole, without the shortened endings that Polish gives to Katarzyna or Małgorzata. And the meaning underneath the spelling stays fixed: in Hebrew, yasmin is the jasmine flower.
How many people are named Yasmin
1 in 49008 women in Poland is named Yasmin. 460 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1380 among female names.
Yasmin's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1888 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2003. Still the #1380 name among living women, even as it slips to #1888 among newborns.
Where Yasmin is most popular
Yasmin is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 276% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+276%) and Pomeranian (+83%).
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born+276%
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Greater Poland6 girls born+276%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+83%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+72%
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Masovian4 girls born+52%
Yasmin as a middle name
Yasmin is a first name for 460 women in Poland and a middle name for another 69, an 87/13 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 811th, between Waltrauda (69) and Bernadyna (68).
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#809 Vivian69
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#810 Waltrauda69
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#811 Yasmin69
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#812 Bernadyna68
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#813 Felicia68