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Girl's nameOrigin: of mixed originIn Israel: steady

YasminIn Hebrew: יסמין · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: יַסְמִיןRomanization: yasmín

Yasmin (Hebrew: יסמין) is a girl's name of mixed origin. 14,504 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 177 girls and ranked #113. Its peak year was 1985, with 400 babies.

People in Israel
14,504
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
177
rank #113
Peak year
1985
400 babies
USA, 2025
269
rank #955

Writing and saying Yasmin

In Hebrew letters the name is יסמין, read right to left. Yasmin is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "yasmín" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name, Yasmin, equivalent to English Jasmine

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Yasmin by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Yasmin: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Yasmin in English-speaking countries

Yasmin in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025269#9552006 (1,018)
United Kingdom2025145#3321997 (672)
England and Wales2025137#3181996 (661)
Scotland20258#3871992 (53)
Ireland20255#5902007 (27)
Alberta20257#6262008 (10)
Quebec20258#5402009 (16)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Yasmin has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Yasmin

How do you write Yasmin in Hebrew?

Yasmin is written יסמין in Hebrew (with vowel points: יַסְמִין). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "yasmín".

How many people in Israel are named Yasmin?

14,504 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name יסמין: 14,499 women and 5 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Yasmin a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 100.0% of the people named יסמין are women.

What does the name Yasmin mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name, Yasmin, equivalent to English Jasmine"

Is Yasmin used outside Israel?

The name Yasmin appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 269 girls were given it in 2025 (#955), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 145 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.