Destin

Where Destin comes from

Destin hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1895
    Destin Destine born
    Haitian Olympic Bronze Medal winner and sport shooter
  2. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,136 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1978
    Destin Daniel Cretton born
    film director and screenwriter
  4. 1999
    Peak, #708
    236 babies named Destin — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,465.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Destin Daniel Cretton · film director and screenwriter, born 1978
  • Destin Destine · Haitian Olympic Bronze Medal winner and sport shooter, born 1895
  • Destin Makita · Republic of the Congo footballer, born 1984
  • Destin Onka Malonga · Congolese footballer, 1988–2016
  • Destin Sandlin · American engineer, science communicator, and YouTuber, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.