Destinee
- #3,028 for girls in 2025, 54 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 945 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 16,800since 1973
Destinee over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Destinee has never cracked the top 300 here.
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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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,028 | 54 |
| 2024 | #2,559 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,034 | 95 |
| 2021 | #2,071 | 92 |
| 2020 | #1,752 | 114 |
| 2019 | #1,687 | 124 |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 |
| 2017 | #1,441 | 157 |
| 2016 | #1,353 | 175 |
| 2015 | #1,227 | 201 |
| 2014 | #1,040 | 249 |
| 2013 | #918 | 277 |
| 2012 | #793 | 337 |
| 2011 | #716 | 386 |
| 2010 | #705 | 406 |
| 2009 | #622 | 485 |
| 2008 | #615 | 497 |
| 2007 | #631 | 472 |
| 2006 | #559 | 528 |
| 2005 | #518 | 566 |
| 2004 | #522 | 549 |
| 2003 | #471 | 634 |
| 2002 | #488 | 572 |
| 2001 | #361 | 823 |
| 2000 | #327 | 973 |
| 1999 | #308 | 1,002 |
| 1998 | #308 | 983 |
| 1997 | #307 | 945 |
| 1996 | #313 | 899 |
| 1995 | #322 | 849 |
| 1994 | #387 | 655 |
| 1993 | #465 | 542 |
| 1992 | #553 | 426 |
| 1991 | #639 | 349 |
| 1990 | #847 | 232 |
| 1989 | #913 | 199 |
| 1988 | #1,007 | 162 |
| 1987 | #1,274 | 110 |
| 1986 | #1,572 | 76 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 |
| 1984 | #2,421 | 39 |
| 1983 | #2,069 | 48 |
| 1982 | #2,532 | 37 |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 |
| 1980 | #3,215 | 26 |
| 1979 | #2,795 | 31 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
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| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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First appearance
1973
The first year at least five girls were named Destinee! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Destinee is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Destinee in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Destinee
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 1,276 spots since 2020 (#1,752 → #3,028)
- Biggest jump: 208 spots in 1991
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2002
Rise & fade · girls
24 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1997 at #307 (945 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 25 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 1989–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,770
- Highest: 1 in 1,770 girls born in 1999 were named Destinee (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,764 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #307 in 1997, was only 1 in 1,842 (0.05%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 41.0% of all girls named Destinee (6,882) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 83 | #2,795 (1979) | #5,748 |
| 1980s | 804 | #913 (1989) | #1,903 |
| 1990s | 6,882 | #307 (1997) | #445 |
| 2000s | 6,099 | #327 (2000) | #511 |
| 2010s | 2,443 | #705 (2010) | #1,150 |
| 2020s | 489 | #1,752 (2020) | #2,353 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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