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Jashanti vs Jasmin

American parents have registered 45,649 Jasmins since 1880, against 153 Jashantis. Jasmin is still ahead, with 155 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jashanti against Jasmin, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jashanti Jasmin

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Jasmin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1951 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Jashanti had 63 and Jasmin had 1,775.

Side by side

  Jashanti Jasmin
Total US births 15345,649
Most in one year 631,955
Babies in 2025 under 5155
Estimated living today 15045,000
Median age today 2226
Peak year 20022006
Best rank 2,497th girls182nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,406th
First recorded 20021951
Girls / boys 153 / 045,060 / 589

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jasmins alive today are over 26; half the Jashantis are over 22. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jashanti and Jasmin.