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Destry

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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
Babies named Destry, by year of birthboys
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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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Destry
1950s29
1960s338
1970s277
1980s230
1990s280
2000s164
2010s135
2020s48

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.

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.