Jasmine reached its peak at rank 23 in 1993, putting it squarely in the U.S. top 25 for the entire mid-1990s. About 257,100 cumulative American girls bear the name on SSA record. The current rank of 199 reflects a clean three-decade fade, and Jasmine has now slipped from the dense early-2000s saturation into a kind of dormant status that often precedes a revival cycle.
The Persian botanical root
Jasmine comes from the Persian yasamin, the word for the jasmine flower. The plant and its scented blossoms spread along the Silk Road into Arabic, Turkish, and eventually European naming and horticulture. The Arabic Yasmin, the Persian Yasmin, and the European Jasmine, Jessamine, and Jasmin variants all derive from the same root.
The English-language adoption as a girls' name was relatively late, becoming common only in the 19th-century Victorian floral-name wave alongside Daisy, Iris, and Violet. The American chart climb began in the 1970s and accelerated sharply in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Aladdin effect
The 1992 Disney animated film Aladdin gave Jasmine its single biggest cultural lift. Princess Jasmine became the first major Middle Eastern Disney princess (the film loosely sets itself in a fictionalized Arabia), and the character's prominence coincided exactly with Jasmine's chart peak in 1993.
The 2019 live-action remake with Naomi Scott as Jasmine generated renewed visibility for the name, but the chart had already been softening for two decades by then, and the remake didn't reverse the broader fade.
The counter-reading
Worth flagging that Jasmine now sits in the awkward middle ground of names that have visibly faded from a recent peak but haven't yet aged into vintage-revival territory. The 1993 peak is now 32 years past, putting Jasmine in the same age zone as Jessica, Ashley, and Brittany — names that read distinctly as Gen-X-mom names rather than as fresh choices.
The standard four-generation revival cycle suggests Jasmine could come back as a great-grandmother revival in another 20-30 years, but right now the name reads as a specific generational signature. Sibling pairings on naming forums in the peak years leaned toward similarly floral-and-Disney-era picks: Jasmine and Tiana, Jasmine and Aurora, Jasmine and Violet. For more, browse Persian girl names. The Yasmin and Yasmine spellings remain in active U.S. use, particularly in Arab-American and Middle Eastern-American naming, and represent the original phonetic transmission rather than the anglicized Jasmine. Parents specifically anchored in the Persian or Arabic tradition often choose Yasmin instead.