Name meaning and origin
Jasmine
Persian: The jasmine flower
Pronounced JAZ-min; Spanish Jazmín hahs-MEEN
Where the name comes from
- PersianThe jasmine flowerPersian yāsamīn, through Arabic and Old FrenchA Dictionary of First Names (Hanks, Hardcastle & Hodges, 2006, p. 138): "From the vocabulary word denoting the climbing plant with its delicate, fragrant flowers (from Old French, ultimately from Persian yasmin)." Yasmin is itself a long-standing given name in Persian- and Arabic-speaking cultures.
Jasmine across traditions
- Persian and Arabic. Yasmin and Yasmeen are the native forms of the flower’s name and of the given name.
- American naming. First ranked in the United States in 1973; among the 100 most popular girls’ names from 1986 to 2008, with its peak in the early 1990s after Disney’s Aladdin (1992).
Who carried it
- Jasmine Crockett (Born 1981): US Representative from Texas.
Forms in other languages
Jazmin, Jazmín (Spanish), Jazmine, Jasmin, Yasmin, Yasmine, Jessamine
Jasmine in letter-number systems
Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.
176
Hebrew Standard
5
Hebrew Ordinal
71
English Simple
426
English Sumerian
118
English Reverse
316
Greek Isopsephy
2
Chaldean
8
Pythagorean
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