Destini
Destini was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,771 among girls’ names; 7,857 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,740 Americans named Destini 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 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destini?
#5,771 among girls’ names, 2025
Destini fell from #2,127 in 2015 to #5,771 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 50.4 to 13.1 per million.
469 babies in 1999, the peak
Destini peaked in 1999, when 469 girls were given it, #539 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,771 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 39 | #3,842 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,783 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,204 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,452 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,299 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,407 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,789 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,792 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 78 | #2,391 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 90 | #2,127 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,219 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 117 | #1,756 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 130 | #1,646 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 160 | #1,420 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 179 | #1,314 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 224 | #1,130 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 236 | #1,103 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 297 | #914 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 282 | #932 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 330 | #788 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 260 | #926 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 270 | #891 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 302 | #779 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 398 | #632 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 458 | #569 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 469 | #539 | 0.26 |
| 1998 | 407 | #595 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 368 | #614 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 338 | #657 | 0.19 |
| 1995 | 384 | #592 | 0.22 |
| 1994 | 279 | #744 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 200 | #942 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 199 | #964 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 143 | #1,204 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 142 | #1,194 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,506 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 90 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,750 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,305 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,181 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,584 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,318 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,597 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 35 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,105 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,289 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,960 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,232 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,388 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,669 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,084 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,768 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,291 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Destini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Destini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Destini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destini, and how old are they?
7,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 7,857 Americans ever recorded as Destini. The median Destini alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 5,993 people named Destini (5,972 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,563 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 146 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,130 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 750 |
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 Destini born?
The states with the most babies named Destini are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 809 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 506 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 499 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| California | 437 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 299 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 288 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 286 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 285 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 257 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 255 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Destini is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Destini is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1970 it was given 2.2 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 Destini with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Destini?
Destini is a less common spelling of Destiny: SSA has recorded 7,857 Destini and 152,289 Destiny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 194,177 babies since 1880, Destini is the third most given (4.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 551 babies (3.8%), again the third 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 Destini
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 Destini and names like it
- Compare Destini and DestinyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDestini peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destini since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Destini.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Destini alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.