Destine
Destine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1998101 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1972
- 1,421people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,222 girls have been named Destine in the United States since 1972, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 101 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 101 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 1990s alone account for 50%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 199 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Destine was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Destine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Alexsispeak 1998
- Mikalapeak 1995
- Destiniepeak 1998
- Cheyannapeak 1996
- Katlynnpeak 1999
- Haleypeak 2000
- Sierrapeak 1998
- Keanapeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.