The name Yasmin is of Persian origin meaning ‘Gift from God’. It derived from the word ‘yasamin’ for the jasmine flower.
Yasmin is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Yasmin isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Yasmin ranks 855. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Yasmin. In the entire USA, approximately 18,494 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Yasmin. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Yasmin is of Persian origin meaning ‘Gift from God’. It derived from the word ‘yasamin’ for the jasmine flower.
In English-speaking countries, ... the variant Jasmine is many times more common than Yasmin.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Yasmin is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yasmin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yasmin, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Sun
Mouse
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yasmin
Yasmin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
S
M
I
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
A
S
M
I
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yasmin sounds like this:
