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Jashun vs Jasmine

American parents have registered 259,889 Jasmines since 1880, against 314 Jashuns. Jasmine is still ahead, with 1,481 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jashun 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 2008, when Jashun had 26 and Jasmine had 5,548.

Side by side

  Jashun Jasmine
Total US births 314259,889
Most in one year 2612,111
Babies in 2025 61,481
Estimated living today 310255,000
Median age today 1827
Peak year 20081993
Best rank 3,921st boys23rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th206th
First recorded 19961906
Girls / boys 0 / 314258,626 / 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 Jashuns are over 18. That is 9 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: Jashun and Jasmine.