Destine
Destine was last recorded in 2019, when 12 babies were given it; 1,421 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Destine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 23 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,253, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
113 babies in 1998, the peak
Destine peaked in 1998, when 113 babies were given it (101 girls, #1,610 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 6 | #14,253 | 6 | #11,112 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,672 | 5 | #12,636 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,582 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,651 | 8 | #8,941 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,711 | 9 | #8,292 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,242 | 5 | #12,604 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,249 | 5 | #12,727 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,729 | 8 | #8,949 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,833 | 8 | #8,991 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,159 | 6 | #11,344 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 17 | #7,497 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,408 | 9 | #8,346 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,275 | 15 | #5,585 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,465 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,507 | 5 | #11,799 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,239 | 9 | #7,385 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,470 | 6 | #9,674 |
| 2001 | 58 | #2,603 | 9 | #7,055 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,213 | 15 | #4,841 |
| 1999 | 83 | #1,897 | 13 | #5,101 |
| 1998 | 101 | #1,610 | 12 | #5,220 |
| 1997 | 75 | #1,931 | 7 | #7,482 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,285 | 11 | #5,267 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,984 | 6 | #8,058 |
| 1994 | 53 | #2,416 | 7 | #7,156 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,239 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,280 | 5 | #8,738 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,043 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,030 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,910 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,352 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,022 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,858 | 5 | #6,991 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,678 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,955 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,337 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,910 | 5 | #6,603 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,339 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,928 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,503 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,411 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,586 | under 5 |
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 Destine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,421 Americans recorded as Destine, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Destine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destine, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,421 Americans ever recorded as Destine. The median Destine alive today is 28 years old; half are between 23 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,231 people named Destine (1,044 women and girls, 187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,402 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 482 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 799 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 84 |
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 193,995 babies since 1880, Destine is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 545 babies recorded by SSA was a Destine (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 Destine
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 Destine and names like it
- Compare Destine and DestinyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDestine peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destine since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Destine.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destine alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.