Destiney
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 455 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,690since 1974
Destiney over time
Rank among girls' names. Destiney has never cracked the top 500 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 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 |
| 2017 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2016 | #4,423 | 32 |
| 2015 | #2,685 | 66 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 |
| 2013 | #1,990 | 98 |
| 2012 | #1,744 | 118 |
| 2011 | #1,469 | 152 |
| 2010 | #1,317 | 178 |
| 2009 | #900 | 303 |
| 2008 | #717 | 415 |
| 2007 | #1,019 | 259 |
| 2006 | #967 | 271 |
| 2005 | #917 | 271 |
| 2004 | #835 | 295 |
| 2003 | #882 | 274 |
| 2002 | #718 | 344 |
| 2001 | #582 | 439 |
| 2000 | #562 | 463 |
| 1999 | #553 | 455 |
| 1998 | #558 | 439 |
| 1997 | #597 | 378 |
| 1996 | #616 | 370 |
| 1995 | #603 | 372 |
| 1994 | #719 | 288 |
| 1993 | #832 | 237 |
| 1992 | #1,030 | 181 |
| 1991 | #1,383 | 116 |
| 1990 | #1,385 | 114 |
| 1989 | #1,733 | 78 |
| 1988 | #1,491 | 91 |
| 1987 | #2,276 | 47 |
| 1986 | #2,116 | 50 |
| 1985 | #2,860 | 32 |
| 1984 | #2,781 | 32 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #2,901 | 31 |
| 1981 | #3,147 | 27 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destiney! It came in at #5,776, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Destiney is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#188 · 1 in 734
- West Virginia#333 · 1 in 1,377
- Louisiana#363 · 1 in 1,556
- South Carolina#401 · 1 in 1,745
- Alabama#458 · 1 in 2,098
Best ever in a state: #159 in Mississippi, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #188 | 17 | 1 in 734 |
| West Virginia | #333 | 5 | 1 in 1,377 |
| Louisiana | #363 | 13 | 1 in 1,556 |
| South Carolina | #401 | 11 | 1 in 1,745 |
| Alabama | #458 | 10 | 1 in 2,098 |
| Georgia | #518 | 21 | 1 in 2,515 |
| Ohio | #530 | 19 | 1 in 2,968 |
| Maryland | #566 | 9 | 1 in 2,808 |
| Virginia | #569 | 13 | 1 in 2,894 |
| Oklahoma | #571 | 7 | 1 in 2,492 |
| North Carolina | #595 | 16 | 1 in 3,005 |
| Tennessee | #617 | 10 | 1 in 3,219 |
| Kentucky | #623 | 6 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Indiana | #625 | 10 | 1 in 3,251 |
| Florida | #655 | 24 | 1 in 3,587 |
| Michigan | #658 | 12 | 1 in 3,705 |
| Texas | #667 | 46 | 1 in 3,646 |
| California | #685 | 57 | 1 in 4,024 |
| Pennsylvania | #699 | 13 | 1 in 4,257 |
| Colorado | #721 | 7 | 1 in 3,500 |
| Washington | #764 | 8 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Arizona | #804 | 9 | 1 in 4,055 |
| Missouri | #829 | 6 | 1 in 4,906 |
| Illinois | #880 | 13 | 1 in 5,094 |
| New York | #1,026 | 15 | 1 in 6,369 |
| New Jersey | #1,172 | 5 | 1 in 7,857 |
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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 Destiney
- 395 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #8,362)
- 2,279 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #8,362)
- 5,677 spots since 2015 (#2,685 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 302 spots in 2008 (#1,019 → #717)
- Biggest drop: 417 spots in 2010 (#900 → #1,317)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1999 at #553 (455 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1993–2006
- Highest: 1 in 3,899 girls born in 1999 were named Destiney (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.4% of all girls named Destiney (3,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 81 | #3,668 (1979) | #5,325 |
| 1980s | 445 | #1,491 (1988) | #2,541 |
| 1990s | 2,950 | #553 (1999) | #828 |
| 2000s | 3,334 | #562 (2000) | #810 |
| 2010s | 796 | #1,317 (2010) | #3,036 |
| 2020s | 84 | #6,083 (2020) | #7,736 |
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.
Destiney in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 4,556 of them was named Destiney, which outranked 96.5% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).