Meaning not yet researched.
Destinee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #307 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #307 in 1997; #3,040 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Destinee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,040 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #307.
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Destinee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 girls in 2025. Peak: #307 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 1,002 (1999).
In 2025, 54 US girls were named Destinee, making it the 3,040th most common girls’ name of the year, down 476 places from #2,564 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 69 girls named Destinee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #307, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,002, in 1999. For comparison, it was #1,229 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Destinee in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 16,800 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,882 babies named Destinee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,076 US girls were named Destinee; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,764 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Destiny (152,289 babies since 1880), Destiney (7,690 babies since 1880), Destinie (2,844 babies since 1880) and Destini (7,857 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Destynee, Destynie and Destenie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Destynee (779), Destynie (297), Destenie (207), Destenee (105), Deztinee (76), Dystinee (17), Destinnie (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Destinee in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,564 | — | — |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,677 | — | — |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 2016 | 175 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 2015 | 201 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 2013 | 277 | #918 | — | — |
| 2012 | 337 | #795 | — | — |
| 2011 | 386 | #717 | — | — |
| 2010 | 406 | #705 | — | — |
| 2009 | 485 | #623 | — | — |
| 2008 | 497 | #616 | — | — |
| 2007 | 472 | #632 | — | — |
| 2006 | 528 | #559 | — | — |
| 2005 | 566 | #518 | — | — |
| 2004 | 549 | #522 | — | — |
| 2003 | 634 | #471 | — | — |
| 2002 | 572 | #489 | — | — |
| 2001 | 823 | #362 | — | — |
| 2000 | 973 | #327 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,002 | #308 | — | — |
| 1998 | 983 | #308 | — | — |
| 1997 | 945 | #307 | — | — |
| 1996 | 899 | #313 | — | — |
| 1995 | 849 | #322 | — | — |
| 1994 | 655 | #387 | — | — |
| 1993 | 542 | #465 | — | — |
| 1992 | 426 | #554 | — | — |
| 1991 | 349 | #639 | — | — |
| 1990 | 232 | #847 | — | — |
| 1989 | 199 | #913 | — | — |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1987 | 110 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,997 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,359 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,942 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,760 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).