Black Ghetto Baby Names | Jasmine Jazmin Jasmeen Yasmin

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Jasmine Jazmin Jasmeen Yasmin

Dear readers, today we discuss the most popular of “Black Ghetto Baby Names”, Jasmine (Jazmin, Jaasmeen, Jaasmin). The attentive reader might cite this statement against my summary of popular African American names as published in Freakonomics, but actually, with all combinations, that name was the most popular. I will discuss it, give my words as usual, and share my favorite poem involving the name Jasmine.

Jasmine

As with many of the names we’ve mentioned thus far at Black Ghetto Baby Names, Jasmine, though adopted by the United States, made a long journey from afar before arriving here in the present. The name originated from Yasmin, a Persian Pharsi word for a fragrant bush that grows in that arid climate.

I sometimes wonder how a name achieves such high standing in certain cultures, and I wonder if it has to do with the name’s history and meaning. As if phonetics and semantics are forever sutured into each other, each lacking meaning without the other. And I wonder about the name Jasmine. Is it possible that the mothers of our race have somehow embedded a desire to see their children one day free as the jasmine bush that grows freely out in the desert, in a place where the reign of social construction has given way to that of aridity and the occasional dark volume of a sandstorm.

In closing, I would like to share a segment of my favorite poem by Luis Cernuda with you, as translated by Stephen Kessler.

“In the long summer evenings we went up to the terrace. On the moss-covered bricks, between the railings and the white-washed walls, there was the jasmine bush, its dark branches covered with little white corollas, next to the moonflower vine, which at that hour was opening its little blue bells.”

from Evening by Luis Cernuda (Transl. Stephen Kessler)

Thank you for coming here to Black Ghetto Baby Names again, friend, and may choirs of angels sing you to your rest.

If you found this post interesting, I hope you’ll check out our list of popular black names for similar posts on other historically black names.

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