Destinee
#3,028 for girls in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 945 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,800since 1973
Destinee over time
Rank among girls' names. Destinee has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,028 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,034 | 95 |
| 2021 | #2,071 | 92 |
| 2020 | #1,752 | 114 |
| 2019 | #1,687 | 124 |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 |
| 2017 | #1,441 | 157 |
| 2016 | #1,353 | 175 |
| 2015 | #1,227 | 201 |
| 2014 | #1,040 | 249 |
| 2013 | #918 | 277 |
| 2012 | #793 | 337 |
| 2011 | #716 | 386 |
| 2010 | #705 | 406 |
| 2009 | #622 | 485 |
| 2008 | #615 | 497 |
| 2007 | #631 | 472 |
| 2006 | #559 | 528 |
| 2005 | #518 | 566 |
| 2004 | #522 | 549 |
| 2003 | #471 | 634 |
| 2002 | #488 | 572 |
| 2001 | #361 | 823 |
| 2000 | #327 | 973 |
| 1999 | #308 | 1,002 |
| 1998 | #308 | 983 |
| 1997 | #307 | 945 |
| 1996 | #313 | 899 |
| 1995 | #322 | 849 |
| 1994 | #387 | 655 |
| 1993 | #465 | 542 |
| 1992 | #553 | 426 |
| 1991 | #639 | 349 |
| 1990 | #847 | 232 |
| 1989 | #913 | 199 |
| 1988 | #1,007 | 162 |
| 1987 | #1,274 | 110 |
| 1986 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,069 | 48 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destinee! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Destinee is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#117 · 1 in 380
- Louisiana#119 · 1 in 525
- Mississippi#121 · 1 in 513
- Alabama#157 · 1 in 727
- Oklahoma#162 · 1 in 695
Best ever in a state: #82 in Wyoming, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #117 | 9 | 1 in 380 |
| Louisiana | #119 | 42 | 1 in 525 |
| Mississippi | #121 | 23 | 1 in 513 |
| Alabama | #157 | 29 | 1 in 727 |
| Oklahoma | #162 | 24 | 1 in 695 |
| South Carolina | #185 | 21 | 1 in 808 |
| Georgia | #204 | 47 | 1 in 973 |
| North Carolina | #219 | 38 | 1 in 1,118 |
| Virginia | #221 | 33 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Kentucky | #225 | 17 | 1 in 1,181 |
| Florida | #234 | 63 | 1 in 1,186 |
| West Virginia | #241 | 6 | 1 in 1,212 |
| Tennessee | #248 | 24 | 1 in 1,276 |
| Arkansas | #261 | 10 | 1 in 1,178 |
| Texas | #286 | 100 | 1 in 1,472 |
| Nevada | #294 | 8 | 1 in 1,153 |
| New Jersey | #295 | 25 | 1 in 1,661 |
| Pennsylvania | #296 | 36 | 1 in 1,609 |
| Idaho | #303 | 5 | 1 in 1,197 |
| Michigan | #304 | 30 | 1 in 1,710 |
| Indiana | #305 | 21 | 1 in 1,582 |
| Connecticut | #312 | 9 | 1 in 1,704 |
| Missouri | #316 | 17 | 1 in 1,721 |
| New Mexico | #316 | 6 | 1 in 1,351 |
| Kansas | #318 | 9 | 1 in 1,458 |
| Ohio | #321 | 33 | 1 in 1,865 |
| Illinois | #322 | 43 | 1 in 1,624 |
| Maryland | #326 | 14 | 1 in 1,710 |
| New York | #333 | 51 | 1 in 1,957 |
| California | #352 | 117 | 1 in 1,872 |
| Massachusetts | #358 | 14 | 1 in 2,240 |
| Wisconsin | #372 | 12 | 1 in 2,103 |
| Iowa | #399 | 6 | 1 in 2,292 |
| Arizona | #446 | 14 | 1 in 2,175 |
| Colorado | #539 | 8 | 1 in 2,883 |
| Utah | #599 | 5 | 1 in 3,321 |
| Minnesota | #667 | 5 | 1 in 4,996 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Destinee
- 469 spots since 2024 (#2,559 → #3,028)
- 1,276 spots since 2020 (#1,752 → #3,028)
- 1,801 spots since 2015 (#1,227 → #3,028)
- Biggest jump: 208 spots in 1991 (#847 → #639)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2002 (#361 → #488)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1997 at #307 (945 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1989–2013
- Highest: 1 in 1,770 girls born in 1999 were named Destinee (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,764 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #307 in 1997, was only 1 in 1,842 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.0% of all girls named Destinee (6,882) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 83 | #2,795 (1979) | #5,748 |
| 1980s | 804 | #913 (1989) | #1,903 |
| 1990s | 6,882 | #307 (1997) | #445 |
| 2000s | 6,099 | #327 (2000) | #511 |
| 2010s | 2,443 | #705 (2010) | #1,150 |
| 2020s | 489 | #1,752 (2020) | #2,353 |
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.
Destinee in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
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1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 1,770 of them was named Destinee, which outranked 98.2% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.