About Jazmin
Jazmin is a modern English spelling of Jasmine, the flower name with Persian roots. It keeps the familiar two-syllable sound while replacing the middle s with z and omitting the final e. British athletes Jazmin Sawyers and Jazmin Carlin give this spelling notable connections with athletics and swimming.
Meaning and international forms
The name refers to the jasmine plant, known for fragrant flowers used in perfumery. Its word history leads through Arabic to Persian yāsamīn, which is also used as a personal name.
Jazmin belongs to a large international family that includes Jasmine, Jasmin, Jazmine, Yasmin, and Yasmine. The letters differ, but the floral association remains recognizable across those forms.
Spanish Jazmín uses a written accent and a different stress pattern from the usual English Jazmin. The two can appear identical when accents are omitted, but that should not erase their different pronunciations.
Pronunciation
English Jazmin is generally JAZ-min, with two syllables and stress at the beginning. Its opening sound is the j in “jam.” The z makes the middle sound especially visible to an English reader.
Jaz could be chosen as an informal shortening. Jasmine is a related spelling, rather than an expanded formal name that someone registered as Jazmin must use.
Jazmin Sawyers
British long jumper Jazmin Sawyers won the 2023 European indoor title in Istanbul with a jump of seven meters. The winning effort came in the fifth round of the final and placed her ahead of Italy's Larissa Iapichino and Serbia's Ivana Vuleta.
She was Britain's team captain at the championships. Her seven-meter performance was both a personal milestone and the decisive mark in a closely contested international final. It gave the exact spelling Jazmin a prominent place in reporting on European athletics.
Jazmin Carlin
Swimmer Jazmin Carlin won two silver medals at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She first finished second in the 400-meter freestyle and then repeated that result over 800 meters.
Carlin had also taken world championship bronze in the 800 meters in 2015. Her Olympic results made her Britain's first double medalist of the Rio Games. The pairing of those distances highlights a career in middle- and longer-distance freestyle swimming.
Sawyers and Carlin connect the same first name with different events, different training traditions, and separate international achievements.
American popularity
Jazmin rose from 120 girls in the SSA series in 1980 to 1,391 in 2000. Its strongest year was 2006, with 2,240 births and a rank of 155.
The count declined to 1,286 in 2010 and 395 in 2025, when it ranked 710. These figures refer to Jazmin alone, separately from Jasmine and the other spellings in the wider family.
Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution
Meaning and history draw on the references below. Popularity figures use Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling and sex; counts below five are omitted. Existing Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA. Suggested informal shortenings are identified in the prose.
- Wiktionary: Jazmin (English)
- Wiktionary: Jasmine
- Wiktionary: jasmin
- Social Security Administration: national name data
- Wikidata: Jazmin Carlin
- Wikidata: Jazmin Sawyers
- Wikidata: Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
- Wikidata: Jazmin Hotham
- World Athletics: 2023 European indoor results
- European Athletics: Jazmin Sawyers
- Aquatics GB: Jazmin Carlin
Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
How popular is Jazmin?
In 2025, Jazmin ranked #710 among girls in the United States, with 395 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1962; its largest annual count was 2,240 in 2006. Rankings count each spelling separately. They describe national use, so local familiarity can differ. The popularity chart shows whether the name has remained common, returned after a quieter period, or risen recently.