Destany
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #13,462
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 227 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,412since 1979
Destany over time
Rank among girls' names. Destany has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 |
| 2013 | #4,645 | 30 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 |
| 2010 | #2,976 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 |
| 2008 | #2,062 | 99 |
| 2007 | #1,734 | 125 |
| 2006 | #1,552 | 140 |
| 2005 | #1,392 | 154 |
| 2004 | #1,353 | 156 |
| 2003 | #1,509 | 129 |
| 2002 | #1,268 | 155 |
| 2001 | #1,059 | 201 |
| 2000 | #943 | 226 |
| 1999 | #928 | 227 |
| 1998 | #950 | 216 |
| 1997 | #964 | 205 |
| 1996 | #1,020 | 183 |
| 1995 | #991 | 189 |
| 1994 | #1,285 | 132 |
| 1993 | #1,385 | 118 |
| 1992 | #1,661 | 91 |
| 1991 | #2,058 | 66 |
| 1990 | #2,737 | 42 |
| 1989 | #2,658 | 42 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 |
| 1987 | #3,857 | 22 |
| 1986 | #4,347 | 18 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #9,010 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destany! It came in at #9,010, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2024–2025, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Destany
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 294 spots in 1995 (#1,285 → #991)
- Biggest drop: 116 spots in 2001 (#943 → #1,059)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1999 at #928 (227 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1997–2000
- Highest: 1 in 7,814 girls born in 1999 were named Destany (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,430 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 43.3% of all girls named Destany (1,477) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #9,010 (1979) | #9,010 |
| 1980s | 178 | #2,658 (1989) | #4,929 |
| 1990s | 1,469 | #928 (1999) | #1,398 |
| 2000s | 1,477 | #943 (2000) | #1,504 |
| 2010s | 249 | #2,976 (2010) | #7,555 |
| 2020s | 33 | #8,406 (2020) | #11,314 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Destany in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
More about 1996
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1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 9,579 of them was named Destany, which outranked 93.6% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,015Lorraine184
- #1,015Marcella184
- #1,015Shae184
- #1,020Destany183
- #1,020Annmarie183
- #1,020Flor183
- #1,020Hayden183
- #1,028Keanna182
- #1,028Lana182
- #1,028Lia182
Tied with 7 names at #1,020; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.