MEANING & HISTORY
What does Yasmin mean?
Yasmin represents Arabic and Persian name forms associated with jasmine. The plant word passed through several languages and also lies behind English Jasmine.
The flower supplies the direct meaning. Gift from God is not part of this name’s actual lexical construction, even though it sometimes appears in unsourced lists.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Wiktionary / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Arabic / Persian
Dictionary accounts by language
Tagalog
Borrowed from English Yasmin.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Yasmin (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
English
Variant of Jasmine, often representing a transliteration of the corresponding Arabic and Persian names.
A female given name from Arabic.
Wiktionary: Yasmin (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
English
From French jasmin, from Arabic يَاسَمِين (yāsamīn), from Classical Persian یاسمین (yāsamīn), from earlier یاسمن (yāsaman), from Middle Persian yʾsmn' (yāsaman).
A female given name from Persian.
Wiktionary: Yasmin (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Yasmin
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Yasmin Sison-Ching
Filipino artist and painter
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Yasmin
Explore names with a similar opening or ending.
Names in this collection
- Jasmin♂♀Jasmine flower
- Jasmín♀Jasmine, through the Yasmin name family
- Yasin♂The Qur’anic opening letters Yā and Sīn used as a name
- Amin♂Truthful or trustworthy in Arabic
- Armin♂Modern form of Latinized Arminius
- Fermin♂Firminus-name family: firm
- Fermín♂Firm or steadfast, through Latin Firminus
- Minmin♀Repeated familiar form of Mina, Minda, or Minerva
What rhymes with Yasmin?
Dictionary rhyme matches for the readings shown.
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 1 elected-candidate records ·
YASMIN
· CSV row 767 · ODbL 1.0 - Wikidata
- 1 person records with this given name · Q4539302 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata given-name item Q4539302 — Yasmin (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Yasmin Sison-Ching (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Yasmin (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Yasmin (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Yasmin (English) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Yasmin (opens in a new tab)