Destry
Destry is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 637th, in 1964.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1964149 births
- Best rank
- #637in 1964
- Since 1955
- 1,646people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,501 boys have been named Destry in the United States since 1955, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 149 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 149 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1960s alone account for 23%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 145 girls have also been given it, 8.8% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1964, its biggest year
Destry was the 637th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1964 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Destry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dionpeak 1970
- Daronpeak 1965
- Darynpeak 1965
- Christophpeak 1969
- Kelvinpeak 1961
- Andrepeak 1970
- Parrishpeak 1966
- Shanpeak 1969
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.