Jasmine
Meaning of Jasmine
In Jasmine—pronounced the easy, lilting JAZ-min—one hears the hush of Persian gardens where the flower first unfurled its moon-white petals, yet one also tastes the sweetness of an Italian twilight when the scent of “gelsomino” drifts through a veranda like a whispered serenade. The name carries the Persian root “yasamin,” meaning simply “jasmine flower,” but its meaning feels larger: an aromatic promise, a gift of quiet joy, a little joke Nature plays by hiding such heady perfume in so modest a bloom. From Bologna’s terracotta rooftops to Venice’s languid canals, storytellers have compared the star-shaped blossoms to lanterns lighting the path of lovers, and modern ears cannot help but picture Disney’s adventurous princess soaring over sapphire skies—proof that Jasmine belongs equally to antique scrolls and Saturday-morning laughter. In America the name rose like a song in the 1990s, peaking dazzlingly near the top twenty before gliding into today’s comfortable popularity, so a newborn Jasmine still feels familiar yet never commonplace, as if each generation rediscovers the fragrance for itself. To choose Jasmine is to bottle a dusk breeze: warm, bright, slightly mischievous, and forever inviting passersby to pause, breathe deeply, and smile at life’s sweeter notes.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as JAZ-min (/ˈdʒæz.mɪn/)
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Notable People Named Jasmine
| Jasmine Guy is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director best known as Whitley Gilbert on A Different World, for which she won four NAACP Image Awards, with notable roles in School Daze, Dead Like Me, The Vampire Diaries, and Greys Anatomy. |
| Jasmine Ying Thompson is an English singer and songwriter who began on YouTube at age ten and rose to prominence with Robin Schulz track Sun Goes Down, a top ten hit in several countries. |
| Jasmine Curtis-Smith is an Australian and Filipino actress acclaimed for Transit, the younger sister of Anne Curtis, and an exclusive Sparkle artist with GMA Network. |
| Jasmine Murray - Jasmine S. Murray is an American singer and beauty pageant titleholder best known as a season eight American Idol finalist and as Miss Mississippi 2014. |
| Jasmine Tookes is an American fashion model. |
| Jasmine Sanders is an American model and fashion influencer known as Golden Barbie. |
| Jasmine Kaur Roy is a two time National Award winning Indian independent filmmaker who, with Avinash Roy at Wanderlust Films, made Amoli, a documentary on the commercial sexual exploitation of children that won Best Investigative Film at the 2018 National Film Awards. |
| Jasmine Alexandria Sagginario, known as Jasmine, is an American pop singer and songwriter who won Radio Disney NBT in 2009, performed the iShine KNECT theme for TBN, and has released one album and several singles featured on compilations and soundtracks. |
| Jasmine Becket-Griffith is a fairy fantasy and gothic artist known for acrylics on wood, with licensed lines via Hot Topic, the Bradford Group, and Disney, and a fixture at LA ComicCon, CatCon, and GenCon. |
| Jasmine Armfield is an English actress best known for playing Bex Fowler in EastEnders from 2014 to 2020 and briefly in 2025, later appearing in Doctors and Casualty and making her stage debut in Jumping the Shark in 2023. |
| Jasmine Twitty became the youngest municipal court judge in US history at age 25 when appointed in Easley, South Carolina in 2015, a record surpassed in 2021. |
| Jasmine D'Souza is an Indian model, Bollywood actress, and film director, crowned Gladrags Mrs India 2001 and known for 88 Antop Hill. |
| Jasmine Waltz is an American model, actress, and reality TV personality from Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| Jasmine Jessica Anthony is an American actress who debuted in the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can and played Amy Calloway in the 2005 ABC drama Commander in Chief. |
| Jasmine is a Finnish Romani singer. |
