Destine — unisex name

What the Data Says About Destine

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,222 babies named Destine between 1972 and 2019, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Destine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 101 babies received it in a single year. Destine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 199 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Destine performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 605 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Destine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 86 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Destine in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Destine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,222 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.