Desteny
Desteny was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,640 among girls’ names; 1,603 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,580 Americans named Desteny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Desteny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Desteny?
#13,640 among girls’ names, 2025
Desteny fell from #9,100 in 2015 to #13,640 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.7 to 3.7 per million.
110 babies in 2006, the peak
Desteny peaked in 2006, when 110 girls were given it, #1,852 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,640 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,458 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,028 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,748 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,784 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,998 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,957 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,988 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,100 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,059 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 26 | #5,177 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,525 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 49 | #3,315 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,705 | 37.1 |
| 2009 | 66 | #2,733 | 35.9 |
| 2008 | 79 | #2,422 | 41.8 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,185 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 110 | #1,852 | 57.9 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,109 | 47.6 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,047 | 48.5 |
| 2003 | 95 | #1,917 | 52.0 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,031 | 47.3 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,076 | 44.4 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,870 | 50.1 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,896 | 46.8 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,196 | 36.8 |
| 1997 | 74 | #1,945 | 42.5 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,633 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,103 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,406 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,011 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,900 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,542 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #6,986 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,589 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,595 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,780 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,617 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,432 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,325 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Desteny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Desteny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Desteny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Desteny, and how old are they?
1,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,603 Americans ever recorded as Desteny. The median Desteny alive today is 22 years old; half are between 18 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,306 people named Desteny (1,298 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,558 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 212 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142 |
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 Desteny born?
The states with the most babies named Desteny are California, Texas and New York, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 544 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Texas | 161 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 82 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 13 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Desteny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Desteny is most over-represented in California: since 1983 it was given 2.5 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 Desteny 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 176,516 babies since 1880, Desteny is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 497 babies (1.2%), the fourth most given that year.
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 Desteny
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 Desteny and names like it
- Compare Desteny and DestinyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDesteny peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Desteny since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Desteny.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Desteny alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.