Yasmina
Yasmina carries the Hebrew word for the jasmine flower, reaching Poland by way of Arabic. It stays rare here, given to only a handful of girls each year, though those numbers have been climbing lately.
Yasmina Pronunciation
Yasmina is pronounced ih-ahs-MEE-nah (/ɨasˈmina/).
What Yasmina means
Where Yasmina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yasmina begins with a flower. The name reaches back to a Hebrew word for jasmine, the small white bloom that opens after dark, and Arabic culture kept that same flower close in its gardens and verses. The meaning has stayed literal where many names drift: Yasmina still points to jaśmin, the plant itself.
In Poland the name travels with two close relatives. Jasmina keeps the Latin spelling of the flower, while Jaśmina takes the soft ś, so a teacher reading a school register hears the plant named twice over. Both forms sit near the older Yasmina without crowding it.
What holds across all three is the scent of one particular flower. A child called Yasmina carries a plant's name, borrowed from Hebrew, shared by Arabic, and understood in Polish as jaśmin.
How many people are named Yasmina
1 in 73433 women in Poland is named Yasmina. 307 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1730 among female names.
Yasmina's popularity over time
10 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #719 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2006.
Where Yasmina is most popular
Yasmina is most popular in Masovian, 266% above the national average (15 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+105%) and Pomeranian (+17%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Silesian, both 24% below average.
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Masovian15 girls born+266%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+105%
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Pomeranian2 girls born+17%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+10%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−24%
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Silesian2 girls born−24%
Yasmina as a middle name
Yasmina is a first name for 307 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1874th, between Violette (16) and Yağmur (16).
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#1872 Vanina16
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#1873 Violette16
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#1874 Yasmina16
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#1875 Yağmur16
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#1876 Zainab16