Jazmine

About Jazmine

Jazmine is an English form of Jasmine, the fragrant flower name with Persian roots. Its z gives the familiar botanical name a distinctive written shape, while the usual pronunciation remains JAZ-min. Singer Jazmine Sullivan and Olympic bobsleigh pilot Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian are two prominent bearers.

Meaning and related forms

The flower word behind Jasmine ultimately comes from Persian yāsamīn, reaching English by way of Arabic. Jasmine is a climbing plant associated with fragrance and perfume, so Jazmine belongs with names taken directly from flowers, alongside Rose and Lily.

Jazmine, Jazmin, Jazmyn, and Jasmyn are closely related spellings. Yasmin and Yasmine belong to the same wider family, while the English forms Jessamine and Jessamyn have a noticeably different opening sound. These connections give Jazmine a much larger international background than its modern English spelling might suggest.

Music and Olympic connections

Jazmine Sullivan brought this spelling into contemporary R&B. At the 2022 Grammy Awards, she won Best R&B Album for Heaux Tales and an R&B performance award for “Pick Up Your Feelings.” Those were her first Grammy wins after years of nominations. Her earlier nominated work included Fearless and Reality Show, making the awards part of an established recording career rather than a debut breakthrough.

Her Grammy history also shows the range of her work: she has received recognition for singing, songwriting, albums, and collaborations. For listeners familiar with Sullivan, Jazmine has a direct association with a distinctive vocal career as well as its older floral meaning.

Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian connects the name with a different kind of international stage. She competed for the United States in women's two-person bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics, then represented Jamaica in the same event in 2018. With Carrie Russell, she formed Jamaica's first Olympic women's bobsleigh crew. In 2022 she returned for Jamaica in women's monobob, the individual sled event.

Before taking up bobsleigh, Fenlator-Victorian competed in track and field at Rider University. A coach encouraged her to try a bobsled camp after graduation. That route from university athletics to the Winter Olympics gives the name a sporting connection extending across two national teams and several Games.

Sound and everyday use

Jazmine has two syllables, with the emphasis on the first. The final syllable is “min,” despite the written ending resembling the word “mine.” Jaz or Jazzy could serve as informal shortenings. The full name is already compact, combining a strong opening consonant with a softer ending.

American popularity

In United States records, Jazmine reached its best girls' ranking of #195 in 1994, when 1,520 girls received the name. Its largest annual count came later: 1,529 girls in 2006, at #227. It remained familiar through the 2000s before becoming less common. By 2025, it ranked #993 with 255 girls. These figures describe Jazmine alone, separately from Jasmine and the family's other spellings.

How popular is Jazmine?

In 2025, Jazmine ranked #993 among girls in the United States, with 255 recorded uses. The U.S. birth records first list this spelling for girls in 1971; its largest annual count was 1,529 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.