How rare is the name Yasmin?

23,817 people in the United States have the first name Yasmin, about 1 in 12,681. It ranks #1,426 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

YASMIN

#1,426

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
23,817
About
1 in 12,681
This common or more
74.6%
Who bears it

Of the 23,817 people named Yasmin, 54.3% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 16.3% as White and 14.9% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Yasmin peaked in 2006, when 1,018 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19492025
Peak year
2006
Births that year
1,018
In 2025*
269 ▼74%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 21,827 babies have been given the name since 1949. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Yasmin by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #728. The largest share of babies named Yasmin, 53.2%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1940s#12,5745
1950s#3,191298
1960s#3,378320
1970s#2,041931
1980s#1,4941,878
1990s#9524,967
2000s#7288,432
2010s#1,5513,316
2020s#1,7731,680
Baby boom 1946–642.2%
Generation X 1965–805.5%
Millennials 1981–9622.3%
Generation Z 1997–1253.2%
2013 and later16.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Yasmin is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Yasmin has been most common in California (2.3×), Nevada (2.1×), and Arizona (2.1×), and least common in Kentucky (0.15×).

19,292 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Yasmin, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Yasmin ranks #26,900 of 156,621, with 953 people. See Yasmin as a last name

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