Destin
Destin was given to 105 boys in 2025, #1,612 among boys’ names; 6,876 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,730 Americans named Destin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destin?
#1,612 among boys’ names, 2025
Destin fell from #1,233 in 2015 to #1,612 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 77.2 to 61.5 per million.
266 babies in 2001, the peak
Destin peaked in 2001, when 266 babies were given it (241 boys, #726 among boys’ names). The 112 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 42% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,228 | 105 | #1,612 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,486 | 100 | #1,676 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,138 | 111 | #1,567 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,044 | 113 | #1,568 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 122 | #1,472 | |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,097 | 125 | #1,390 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,785 | 144 | #1,289 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,590 | 118 | #1,469 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,604 | 131 | #1,363 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,691 | 132 | #1,350 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,088 | 148 | #1,233 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,076 | 130 | #1,337 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,486 | 142 | #1,246 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,927 | 145 | #1,223 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,638 | 189 | #1,018 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,618 | 196 | #998 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,629 | 171 | #1,086 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,222 | 160 | #1,138 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,151 | 178 | #1,053 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,126 | 200 | #938 |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,611 | 187 | #936 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,801 | 166 | #994 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,964 | 171 | #956 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,507 | 209 | #810 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,723 | 241 | #726 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,356 | 230 | #741 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,587 | 236 | #706 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,398 | 191 | #801 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,951 | 184 | #795 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,857 | 182 | #793 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,902 | 191 | #773 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,271 | 138 | #933 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,730 | 98 | #1,134 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,090 | 96 | #1,118 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,128 | 87 | #1,188 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,146 | 74 | #1,283 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,618 | 69 | #1,316 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,370 | 54 | #1,426 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,905 | 48 | #1,485 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,516 | 52 | #1,368 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,754 | 47 | #1,433 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,286 | 45 | #1,427 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,336 | 25 | #2,104 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,909 | 34 | #1,708 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,037 | 31 | #1,822 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,590 | 21 | #2,384 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,484 | 20 | #2,399 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 23 | #2,084 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 21 | #2,223 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,665 | 17 | #2,533 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 10 | #3,493 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 22 | #2,003 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,513 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,574 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,098 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 13 | #2,651 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 6 | #4,064 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,280 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Destin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,876 Americans recorded as Destin, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls and 105 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Destin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destin, and how old are they?
6,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,876 Americans ever recorded as Destin. The median Destin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 5,191 people named Destin (690 women and girls, 4,501 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,074 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 181 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,780 |
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 Destin born?
The states with the most babies named Destin are Texas, Georgia and Louisiana, with 54% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,582 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,017 | 2.0× |
| Louisiana | 8 | #547 | 3.0× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,510 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,134 | 0.3× |
| California | 5 | #2,560 | 0.4× |
| New York | 5 | #1,826 | 0.7× |
Where Destin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Destin is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1968 it was given 3.0 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 boys’ 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 Destin 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,151 babies since 1880, Destin is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 130 babies (86%), again the most given.
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 Destin
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 Destin and names like it
- Compare Destin and DestynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDestin peaked in 2001.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destin since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Destin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.