Meaning not yet researched.
Destiny: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 458 in 2025. Its best rank was #22 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #22 in 2001; #635 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Destiny in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#635 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #22.
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Destiny: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 458 girls in 2025. Peak: #22 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 9,850 (2000).
In 2025, 458 US girls were named Destiny, making it the 635th most common girls’ name of the year, down 154 places from #481 in 2024. That is 185 fewer than the 643 girls named Destiny in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #22, reached in 2001. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,850, in 2000. For comparison, it was #186 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Destiny in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 152,289 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 69,993 babies named Destiny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,549 US girls were named Destiny; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,603. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,509 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Destiny ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #265 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Destinee (16,800 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 Destaney, Deztiny and Desteni are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Destaney (317), Deztiny (241), Desteni (192), Destina (163), Dystany (94), Destony (80), Dystiny (59), Desteney (46), Destinii (43), Destoni (38), Destinye (37), Deztini (31), and more.
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 Destiny in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 6 | #265 | #101 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #410 | #235 |
| Nevada | 6 | #450 | #132 |
| Texas | 73 | #458 | #162 |
| Florida | 41 | #459 | #138 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #528 | #309 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #543 | #107 |
| California | 59 | #550 | #126 |
| Washington | 12 | #551 | #223 |
| Indiana | 12 | #555 | #297 |
| Missouri | 10 | #566 | #169 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #585 | #174 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #585 | #224 |
| Arizona | 11 | #593 | #179 |
| Maryland | 8 | #613 | #173 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #624 | #128 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #660 | #116 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #679 | #564 |
| Georgia | 15 | #685 | #138 |
| New York | 23 | #708 | #256 |
| Illinois | 12 | #763 | #165 |
| Michigan | 9 | #805 | #261 |
| Alabama | 5 | #854 | #235 |
| Virginia | 8 | #868 | #378 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #946 | #233 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,056 | #250 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 458 | #635 | — | — |
| 2024 | 643 | #481 | — | — |
| 2023 | 708 | #438 | 6 | #11,169 |
| 2022 | 798 | #391 | — | — |
| 2021 | 801 | #392 | — | — |
| 2020 | 891 | #347 | 6 | #10,942 |
| 2019 | 1,052 | #309 | 13 | #6,510 |
| 2018 | 1,206 | #275 | 9 | #8,323 |
| 2017 | 1,389 | #226 | 10 | #7,712 |
| 2016 | 1,603 | #203 | 14 | #6,120 |
| 2015 | 1,733 | #186 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,077 | #156 | 7 | #9,899 |
| 2013 | 2,314 | #138 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,720 | #113 | 12 | #6,717 |
| 2011 | 3,273 | #90 | 10 | #7,637 |
| 2010 | 3,737 | #71 | 10 | #7,730 |
| 2009 | 4,617 | #56 | 8 | #9,198 |
| 2008 | 5,320 | #47 | 13 | #6,494 |
| 2007 | 5,742 | #41 | 12 | #6,734 |
| 2006 | 6,313 | #36 | 14 | #5,860 |
| 2005 | 6,894 | #32 | 16 | #5,092 |
| 2004 | 6,546 | #38 | 31 | #3,175 |
| 2003 | 6,977 | #37 | 17 | #4,659 |
| 2002 | 7,804 | #34 | 19 | #4,219 |
| 2001 | 9,752 | #22 | 23 | #3,644 |
| 2000 | 9,850 | #24 | 25 | #3,335 |
| 1999 | 9,172 | #28 | 21 | #3,615 |
| 1998 | 8,155 | #34 | 24 | #3,216 |
| 1997 | 6,727 | #42 | 25 | #3,008 |
| 1996 | 5,856 | #56 | 14 | #4,436 |
| 1995 | 5,380 | #66 | 15 | #4,104 |
| 1994 | 4,089 | #86 | 15 | #4,143 |
| 1993 | 2,942 | #111 | 18 | #3,539 |
| 1992 | 2,610 | #130 | 16 | #3,793 |
| 1991 | 1,899 | #156 | 13 | #4,289 |
| 1990 | 1,408 | #202 | 7 | #6,591 |
| 1989 | 1,153 | #238 | 11 | #4,592 |
| 1988 | 944 | #268 | 16 | #3,250 |
| 1987 | 811 | #299 | 10 | #4,329 |
| 1986 | 606 | #382 | — | — |
| 1985 | 572 | #391 | 5 | #6,803 |
| 1984 | 564 | #390 | 5 | #6,561 |
| 1983 | 516 | #421 | 7 | #5,058 |
| 1982 | 469 | #454 | 8 | #4,700 |
| 1981 | 467 | #458 | 5 | #6,524 |
| 1980 | 440 | #478 | 6 | #5,704 |
| 1979 | 384 | #514 | 5 | #6,296 |
| 1978 | 324 | #547 | — | — |
| 1977 | 211 | #728 | — | — |
| 1976 | 185 | #775 | — | — |
| 1975 | 161 | #836 | 5 | #5,677 |
| 1974 | 117 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1973 | 86 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,580 | — | — |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,709 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,740 | — | — |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,972 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,731 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,296 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,183 | — | — |
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).