Destany
Destany was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 3,412 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,360 Americans named Destany and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destany by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destany?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,869, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
227 babies in 1999, the peak
Destany peaked in 1999, when 227 girls were given it, #926 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #13,869 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,576 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,380 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,528 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,252 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,315 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,484 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,581 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,525 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,044 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 30 | #4,681 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,146 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,141 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,985 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,171 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 99 | #2,062 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 125 | #1,739 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 140 | #1,554 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,396 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 156 | #1,353 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 129 | #1,511 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 155 | #1,269 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 201 | #1,059 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 226 | #942 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 227 | #926 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 216 | #949 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 205 | #964 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 183 | #1,019 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 189 | #991 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 132 | #1,286 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 118 | #1,383 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 66 | #2,055 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,745 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 42 | #2,667 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,204 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,882 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,313 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,846 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,281 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,444 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,589 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,283 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Destany a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Destany has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Destany: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destany, and how old are they?
3,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,412 Americans ever recorded as Destany. The median Destany alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,511 people named Destany (2,511 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,344 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 970 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 135 |
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).
Where are babies named Destany born?
The states with the most babies named Destany are California, Texas and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 326 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 323 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 150 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 127 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 89 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 82 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Indiana | 75 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 71 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 62 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 60 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Destany is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Destany is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1979 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Destany with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 177,118 babies since 1880, Destany is the fourth most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 497 babies recorded by SSA was a Destany (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 Destany
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 Destany and names like it
- Compare Destany and DestinyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDestany peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destany since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Destany.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destany alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.