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Yaslin vs Yasmin

American parents have registered 21,827 Yasmins since 1880, against 648 Yaslins. Yasmin is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yaslin 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 2021, when Yaslin had 26 and Yasmin had 245.

Side by side

  Yaslin Yasmin
Total US births 64821,827
Most in one year 341,018
Babies in 2025 15269
Estimated living today 64021,000
Median age today 1422
Peak year 20092006
Best rank 4,370th girls324th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd955th
First recorded 19931949
Girls / boys 648 / 021,747 / 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 Yaslins are over 14. That is 8 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: Yaslin and Yasmin.