Destiny
#635 for girls in 2025, 458 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 9,752 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 18 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 151,763since 1956
Destiny over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #635 | 458 | — | |
| 2024 | #481 | 643 | — | |
| 2023 | #438 | 708 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #391 | 798 | — | |
| 2021 | #392 | 801 | — | |
| 2020 | #347 | 891 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #309 | 1,052 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #275 | 1,206 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #226 | 1,389 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #203 | 1,603 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #186 | 1,733 | — | |
| 2014 | #156 | 2,077 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #138 | 2,314 | — | |
| 2012 | #113 | 2,720 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #90 | 3,273 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #71 | 3,737 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #56 | 4,617 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #47 | 5,320 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #41 | 5,742 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #36 | 6,313 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #32 | 6,894 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #38 | 6,546 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #37 | 6,977 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #34 | 7,804 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #22 | 9,752 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #24 | 9,850 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #28 | 9,172 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | #34 | 8,155 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #42 | 6,727 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #56 | 5,856 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #66 | 5,380 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #86 | 4,089 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #111 | 2,942 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #130 | 2,610 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #156 | 1,899 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #202 | 1,408 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #238 | 1,153 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #268 | 944 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #299 | 811 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #382 | 606 | — | |
| 1985 | #391 | 572 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #389 | 564 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #421 | 516 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #454 | 469 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #458 | 467 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #478 | 440 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #514 | 384 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #547 | 324 | — | |
| 1977 | #727 | 211 | — | |
| 1976 | #774 | 185 | — | |
| 1975 | #833 | 161 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,023 | 117 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,226 | 86 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,578 | 58 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
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| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destiny! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Destiny
- 154 spots since 2024 (#481 → #635)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#347 → #635)
- 449 spots since 2015 (#186 → #635)
- Biggest jump: 190 spots in 1975 (#1,023 → #833)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2025 (#481 → #635)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2001 at #22 (9,752 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 18 yrs · run 1994–2011
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1975–2025
- Highest: 1 in 184 girls born in 2000 were named Destiny (0.54%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,509 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #22 in 2001, was only 1 in 185 (0.54%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.0% of all girls named Destiny (69,815) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,868 |
| 1960s | 137 | #2,431 (1968) | #3,567 |
| 1970s | 1,612 | #514 (1979) | #1,119 |
| 1980s | 6,542 | #238 (1989) | #378 |
| 1990s | 48,238 | #28 (1999) | #91 |
| 2000s | 69,815 | #22 (2001) | #37 |
| 2010s | 21,104 | #71 (2010) | #177 |
| 2020s | 4,299 | #347 (2020) | #447 |
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.
Destiny in 2007
Top girls' names in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
girls
1,922,617 girls got a published name in 2007; 1 in 335 of them was named Destiny, which outranked 99.8% of the 20,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 172,951 of them was named Destiny, which outranked 54.0% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,262Zidan13
- #6,262Zyere13
- #6,262Zyrell13
- #6,622Destiny12
- #6,622Aaric12
- #6,622Aasim12
- #6,622Abanoub12
- #7,094Aahil11
- #7,094Aaronjames11
- #7,094Abdirahim11
Tied with 471 names at #6,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.