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Jasean vs Jasmine

American parents have registered 259,889 Jasmines since 1880, against 974 Jaseans. Jasmine is still ahead, with 1,481 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jasean against Jasmine, 1880 to 2025 0 4k 8k 12k 16k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jasean Jasmine

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

Jasmine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jasean had 59 and Jasmine had 4,188.

Side by side

  Jasean Jasmine
Total US births 974259,889
Most in one year 5912,111
Babies in 2025 101,481
Estimated living today 960255,000
Median age today 1827
Peak year 20101993
Best rank 2,212th boys23rd girls
Rank in 2025 7,679th206th
First recorded 19891906
Girls / boys 0 / 974258,626 / 1,263

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 Jasmines alive today are over 27; half the Jaseans are over 18. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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