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Jasey vs Jasmin

American parents have registered 45,649 Jasmins since 1880, against 658 Jaseys. Jasmin is still ahead, with 155 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jasey 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 2017, when Jasey had 28 and Jasmin had 240.

Side by side

  Jasey Jasmin
Total US births 65845,649
Most in one year 401,955
Babies in 2025 14155
Estimated living today 65045,000
Median age today 1626
Peak year 20132006
Best rank 3,778th girls182nd girls
Rank in 2025 7,491st1,406th
First recorded 19781951
Girls / boys 653 / 545,060 / 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 Jaseys are over 16. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Jasey Jasmin
England and Wales 74,728

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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