Jessamine

JESS-ah-min
English from Persian
"jasmine"

Jessamine Origin and Meaning

The name Jessamine is a girl's name of Persian origin meaning "jasmine".

Jessamine, a charming name occasionally heard in England, is just beginning to be appreciated in the U.S. as a possible successor to all the Jess names of the past. It's also spelled Jessamyn, as in Quaker novelist Jessamyn West, author of Friendly Persuasion--who started life with Jessamyn as her middle name.

Jessamine began to be used as a first name in Britain around 1900, along with other flower-related names. Yasmin and Yasmine are other Jasmine variations.

This would make a great choice as a namesake honoring a Jessica.

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Famous People Named Jessamine

  • (Ada) Jessamine Shumate
    American artist and historian
  • Jessamine Cécile Marjorie Gordon Harmsworth
    daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

The name Jessamine in Pop Culture

  • Jessamine Green
    character in the "Milly,Molly,Mandy" series of children's books by Joyce Lankester Brisley.
  • Jessamine Wentworth
    one of 12 sisters in Heather Dixon's book "Entwined"
  • Jessamine Lovelace
    character in "The Infernal Devices" series by Cassandra Clare
  • Miss Jessamine
    character in "Jackanapes" (1879) by Juliana Ewing
  • Jessamine County
    Kentucky
  • Empress Jessamine Kaldwin
    character in "Dishonored" the videogame
  • Jessamine Sage
    character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
  • Jessamine Cullen
    character in Stephenie Meyer's "Life and Death"
  • ‘Jessamine’
    song by The Casuals

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