Given name
Gelsomina
“resembling the jasmine flower”
Gelsomina is used as a given name. One Italian interpretation is “resembling the jasmine flower.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Italian interpretation is “resembling the jasmine flower.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Italian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Gelsomina through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 15
- 0 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1966. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 178 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gelsomina’s family of names
In Italian usage, Gelsomina has a conventional equivalent in the German form Jasmin. Gelsomina has a related form in Gelsey. Gelsomina has a related form in Gelsy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gelseyvariant
- Gelseahvariant
- Gelseavariant
- Gelseevariant
- Gelsievariant
- Gelsyvariant
- Gelsivariant
- Gelsomeanavariant
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Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- JasmineEnglish
- Jazminequivalent
- Yasminequivalent
- Jazmineequivalent
- Yasmineequivalent
- JasminGerman
- Jasmínequivalent
- Jazmínequivalent
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