Destani
Destani was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,164 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Destani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 20 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destani?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,854, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
72 babies in 2000, the peak
Destani peaked in 2000, when 72 girls were given it, #2,189 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,854 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,919 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,255 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,504 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,092 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,368 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,403 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,306 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,753 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,637 | 10.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26 | #5,281 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,754 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,026 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,732 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,188 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,174 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,227 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,094 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,607 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,335 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,189 | 39.6 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,315 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,195 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,236 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 56 | #2,347 | 31.9 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,739 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,629 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,303 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,406 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,092 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,733 | 10.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,352 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,523 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,192 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,858 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,579 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,694 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,528 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,793 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Destani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Destani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Destani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destani, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,164 Americans ever recorded as Destani. The median Destani alive today is 25 years old; half are between 20 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 879 people named Destani (875 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 297 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 768 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 77 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 172,272 babies since 1880, Destani is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 485 babies recorded by SSA was a Destani (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Destani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Destani and names like it
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- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Destani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destani alive today were born 1997-2012.
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