Destry
Destry was last recorded in 2023, when 19 babies were given it; 1,647 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Destry and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Destry by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Destry?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,112, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
154 babies in 1964, the peak
Destry peaked in 1964, when 154 babies were given it (149 boys, #637 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 19 | #5,112 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,474 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,214 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,229 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,081 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,923 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,217 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,732 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,769 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,795 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #5,988 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,297 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,012 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,302 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,621 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,303 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,259 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,586 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,357 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,222 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,354 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,659 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,339 | 13.4 |
| 2000 | 20 | #3,948 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 29 | #2,881 | 15.1 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,312 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,840 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,943 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,335 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 31 | #2,452 | 16.0 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,258 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,182 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,150 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,878 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 33 | #2,109 | 16.5 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,153 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,067 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,372 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,452 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,635 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,293 | 12.3 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,068 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,263 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 24 | #2,173 | 13.5 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,119 | 13.9 |
| 1978 | 27 | #1,882 | 16.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,021 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,128 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,078 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 25 | #1,843 | 15.9 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,556 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,478 | 20.4 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,382 | 21.5 |
| 1970 | 31 | #1,527 | 16.7 |
| 1969 | 30 | #1,472 | 16.8 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,371 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 34 | #1,293 | 19.5 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,136 | 24.1 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,044 | 26.9 |
| 1964 | 149 | #637 | 74.8 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,096 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,661 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,671 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,028 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Destry a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,647 Americans recorded as Destry, 9% are girls and 91% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Destry: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Destry, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,647 Americans ever recorded as Destry. The median Destry alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 1,355 people named Destry (204 women and girls, 1,151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 144 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 456 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 443 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 345 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 129 |
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Destry
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 Destry and names like it
- Compare Destry and DaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDestry peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Destry since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Destry.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Destry alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.