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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Mississippi#524 · 1 in 2,423
- North Carolina#864 · 1 in 6,118
- Georgia#867 · 1 in 5,586
- Michigan#1,087 · 1 in 8,543
- Illinois#1,161 · 1 in 9,107
Best ever in a state: #240 in Louisiana, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #524 | 5 | 1 in 2,423 |
| North Carolina | #864 | 8 | 1 in 6,118 |
| Georgia | #867 | 9 | 1 in 5,586 |
| Michigan | #1,087 | 5 | 1 in 8,543 |
| Illinois | #1,161 | 6 | 1 in 9,107 |
| Texas | #1,479 | 11 | 1 in 15,386 |
| Florida | #1,511 | 6 | 1 in 15,035 |
| California | #1,601 | 10 | 1 in 18,962 |
| New York | #1,717 | 5 | 1 in 17,529 |
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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.
See more about Destin
- 64 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,609)
- 219 spots since 2020 (#1,390 → #1,609)
- 378 spots since 2015 (#1,231 → #1,609)
- Biggest jump: 203 spots in 1994 (#1,138 → #935)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 2003 (#811 → #956)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1999 at #708 (236 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1994–2006
- 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
- 31.2% of all boys named Destin (1,913) were born in this decade
- 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.
Destin in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 146,959 of them was named Destin, which outranked 48.9% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,406Zoiee12
- #8,406Zona12
- #8,406Zyia12
- #8,953Destin11
- #8,953Aahna11
- #8,953Aaryah11
- #8,953Aaryana11
- #9,546Aashna10
- #9,546Abree10
- #9,546Abria10
Tied with 592 names at #8,953; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 13,809 of them was named Destin, which outranked 90.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,386Demari126
- #1,386Giannis126
- #1,386Johnathon126
- #1,390Destin125
- #1,390Ean125
- #1,390Journey125
- #1,390Malek125
- #1,398Aamir124
- #1,398Chevy124
- #1,398Cortez124
Tied with 7 names at #1,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.