Destin
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- #1,609 for boys in 2025, 105 births
- Given to boys 89.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 236 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,124since 1968
Destin over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,609 | 105 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #1,567 | 111 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #1,566 | 113 |
| 2021 | — | #1,469 | 122 | |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #1,390 | 125 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #1,287 | 144 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 | #1,465 | 118 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 | #1,360 | 131 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #1,349 | 132 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #1,231 | 148 |
| 2014 | #6,987 | 17 | #1,334 | 130 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #1,243 | 142 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #1,222 | 145 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #1,017 | 189 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #997 | 196 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,085 | 171 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | #1,137 | 160 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #1,053 | 178 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #937 | 200 |
| 2005 | #4,581 | 29 | #935 | 187 |
| 2004 | #5,744 | 21 | #995 | 166 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | #956 | 171 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #811 | 209 |
| 2001 | #4,688 | 25 | #727 | 241 |
| 2000 | #5,312 | 21 | #741 | 230 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #708 | 236 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | #801 | 191 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #797 | 184 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #795 | 182 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #776 | 191 |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | #935 | 138 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #1,138 | 98 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | #1,119 | 96 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | #1,192 | 87 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 | #1,287 | 74 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 | #1,318 | 69 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #1,427 | 54 |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | #1,484 | 48 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 | #1,429 | 47 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #1,422 | 45 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | #2,085 | 25 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,700 | 34 |
| 1981 | #4,963 | 14 | #1,811 | 31 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 | #2,367 | 21 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,202 | 21 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,983 | 22 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five boys were named Destin! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Destin is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- Louisiana#531 · 1 in 2,391
- Georgia#990 · 1 in 6,278
- Pennsylvania#1,094 · 1 in 8,710
- Florida#1,478 · 1 in 13,648
- Texas#1,555 · 1 in 15,914
Best ever in a state: #240 in Louisiana, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Louisiana | #531 | 8 | 1 in 2,391 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| Texas | #1,555 | 11 | 1 in 15,914 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
| California | #2,471 | 5 | 1 in 35,095 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,609)
- 219 spots since 2020 (#1,390 → #1,609)
- Biggest jump: 203 spots in 1994
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2003
Rise & fade · boys
31 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1999 at #708 (236 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1994–2006
Share of babies · boys
1 in 8,062
- Highest: 1 in 8,062 boys born in 2001 were named Destin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,267 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #708 in 1999, was only 1 in 8,136 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 31.2% of all boys named Destin (1,913) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #3,935 (1969) | #4,036 |
| 1970s | 146 | #1,983 (1974) | #2,998 |
| 1980s | 426 | #1,318 (1989) | #1,641 |
| 1990s | 1,477 | #708 (1999) | #955 |
| 2000s | 1,913 | #727 (2001) | #938 |
| 2010s | 1,475 | #997 (2010) | #1,251 |
| 2020s | 676 | #1,390 (2020) | #1,546 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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