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Yasmin vs Yasser

American parents have registered 21,827 Yasmins since 1880, against 1,219 Yassers. Yasmin is still ahead, with 269 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Yasmin Yasser

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 2017, when Yasmin had 251 and Yasser had 60.

Side by side

  Yasmin Yasser
Total US births 21,8271,219
Most in one year 1,01861
Babies in 2025 26947
Estimated living today 21,0001,200
Median age today 2212
Peak year 20062016
Best rank 324th girls2,207th boys
Rank in 2025 955th2,718th
First recorded 19491975
Girls / boys 21,747 / 800 / 1,219

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 Yassers are over 12. That is 10 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 Yasmin Yasser
England and Wales 10,189401
France 1,0503,350
Italy 2,8251,250
Belgium 678730
Ireland 5023
Poland 2272

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: Yasmin and Yasser.