Destinee

Where Destinee comes from

The dictionaries list Destinee as a given name — a female given name, variant of Destiny — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1973
    First appearance
    #8,423 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Destinee Hooker born
    American volleyball player
  3. 1997
    Peak, #307
    945 babies named Destinee — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2007
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #631.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Destiny.
Namesakes
  • Destinee Hooker · American volleyball player, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.