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Yasir vs Yasmin

American parents have registered 21,827 Yasmins since 1880, against 3,267 Yasirs. Yasmin is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Yasir against Yasmin, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Yasir Yasmin

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

Yasmin has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2019, when Yasir had 205 and Yasmin had 279.

Side by side

  Yasir Yasmin
Total US births 3,26721,827
Most in one year 2051,018
Babies in 2025 181269
Estimated living today 3,20021,000
Median age today 1022
Peak year 20192006
Best rank 1,013th boys324th girls
Rank in 2025 1,156th955th
First recorded 19741949
Girls / boys 0 / 3,26721,747 / 80

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 Yasmins alive today are over 22; half the Yasirs are over 10. That is 12 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Yasir Yasmin
England and Wales 1,12510,189
France 2101,050
Belgium 156678
Norway 12771
Scotland 14718
Switzerland 53637

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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