Destinee
Destinee was given to 54 girls in 2025, #3,040 among girls’ names; 16,800 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,600 Americans named Destinee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destinee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Destinee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Destinee is “a female given name, variant of Destiny.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Destinee?
#3,040 among girls’ names, 2025
Destinee fell from #1,229 in 2015 to #3,040 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.03 per 1,000.
1,002 babies in 1999, the peak
Destinee peaked in 1999, when 1,002 girls were given it, #308 among girls’ names. The 54 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 54 | #3,040 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,564 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 65 | #2,677 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,039 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 92 | #2,073 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,754 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,687 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,625 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 157 | #1,443 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 175 | #1,355 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 201 | #1,229 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,042 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 277 | #918 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 337 | #795 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 386 | #717 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 406 | #705 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 485 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 497 | #616 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 472 | #632 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 528 | #559 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 566 | #518 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 549 | #522 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 634 | #471 | 0.35 |
| 2002 | 572 | #489 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 823 | #362 | 0.46 |
| 2000 | 973 | #327 | 0.54 |
| 1999 | 1,002 | #308 | 0.56 |
| 1998 | 983 | #308 | 0.56 |
| 1997 | 945 | #307 | 0.54 |
| 1996 | 899 | #313 | 0.51 |
| 1995 | 849 | #322 | 0.48 |
| 1994 | 655 | #387 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 542 | #465 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 426 | #554 | 0.23 |
| 1991 | 349 | #639 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 232 | #846 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 199 | #910 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,008 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 110 | #1,276 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 76 | #1,575 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,435 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 48 | #2,079 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,544 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,239 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,809 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,997 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,508 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,758 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Destinee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Destinee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Destinee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destinee, and how old are they?
16,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,800 Americans ever recorded as Destinee. The median Destinee alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 12,483 people named Destinee (12,456 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
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 Destinee born?
The states with the most babies named Destinee are California, Texas and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,993 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 1,711 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 925 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 761 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 626 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 621 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 608 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 586 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 542 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Louisiana | 468 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Destinee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Destinee is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1973 it was given 2.1 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 Destinee 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 191,418 babies since 1880, Destinee is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 545 babies (9.9%), again the second 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 Destinee
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 Destinee and names like it
- Compare Destinee and DestinyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDestinee peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destinee since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Destinee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destinee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.