Destini
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 469 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,857since 1970
Destini over time
Rank among girls' names. Destini has never cracked the top 500 here.
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 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #3,822 | 39 |
| 2023 | #3,763 | 40 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 |
| 2018 | #2,782 | 61 |
| 2017 | #2,779 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,385 | 78 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2014 | #2,213 | 85 |
| 2013 | #1,754 | 117 |
| 2012 | #1,646 | 130 |
| 2011 | #1,418 | 160 |
| 2010 | #1,311 | 179 |
| 2009 | #1,129 | 224 |
| 2008 | #1,100 | 236 |
| 2007 | #914 | 297 |
| 2006 | #932 | 282 |
| 2005 | #788 | 330 |
| 2004 | #926 | 260 |
| 2003 | #891 | 270 |
| 2002 | #778 | 302 |
| 2001 | #632 | 398 |
| 2000 | #568 | 458 |
| 1999 | #538 | 469 |
| 1998 | #593 | 407 |
| 1997 | #614 | 368 |
| 1996 | #657 | 338 |
| 1995 | #592 | 384 |
| 1994 | #745 | 279 |
| 1993 | #943 | 200 |
| 1992 | #963 | 199 |
| 1991 | #1,205 | 143 |
| 1990 | #1,198 | 142 |
| 1989 | #1,506 | 95 |
| 1988 | #1,506 | 90 |
| 1987 | #1,748 | 68 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #2,172 | 48 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 |
| 1983 | #2,310 | 41 |
| 1982 | #2,581 | 36 |
| 1981 | #2,614 | 35 |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destini! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Destini is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#187 · 1 in 823
- Alabama#221 · 1 in 1,152
- South Carolina#260 · 1 in 1,342
- Georgia#312 · 1 in 1,711
- North Carolina#325 · 1 in 1,821
Best ever in a state: #167 in Mississippi, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #187 | 14 | 1 in 823 |
| Alabama | #221 | 18 | 1 in 1,152 |
| South Carolina | #260 | 12 | 1 in 1,342 |
| Georgia | #312 | 25 | 1 in 1,711 |
| North Carolina | #325 | 22 | 1 in 1,821 |
| Louisiana | #353 | 12 | 1 in 1,803 |
| Virginia | #389 | 14 | 1 in 2,376 |
| Oklahoma | #448 | 7 | 1 in 2,403 |
| Florida | #451 | 26 | 1 in 2,821 |
| Tennessee | #484 | 9 | 1 in 3,268 |
| Maryland | #519 | 7 | 1 in 3,377 |
| Texas | #576 | 38 | 1 in 3,681 |
| Ohio | #584 | 14 | 1 in 4,417 |
| Massachusetts | #619 | 6 | 1 in 5,300 |
| Michigan | #640 | 11 | 1 in 4,724 |
| New Jersey | #653 | 9 | 1 in 4,640 |
| Pennsylvania | #667 | 11 | 1 in 5,297 |
| New York | #678 | 21 | 1 in 4,810 |
| Illinois | #731 | 13 | 1 in 5,378 |
| California | #959 | 28 | 1 in 7,959 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Destini
- 1,900 spots since 2024 (#3,822 → #5,722)
- 2,441 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #5,722)
- 3,599 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #5,722)
- Biggest jump: 242 spots in 1992 (#1,205 → #963)
- Biggest drop: 186 spots in 2008 (#914 → #1,100)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1999 at #538 (469 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1992–2007
- Highest: 1 in 3,782 girls born in 1999 were named Destini (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.9% of all girls named Destini (3,057) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 105 | #3,903 (1979) | #5,752 |
| 1980s | 542 | #1,506 (1989) | #2,141 |
| 1990s | 2,929 | #538 (1999) | #805 |
| 2000s | 3,057 | #568 (2000) | #866 |
| 2010s | 1,007 | #1,311 (2010) | #2,180 |
| 2020s | 217 | #3,281 (2020) | #4,199 |
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.
Destini in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 4,730 of them was named Destini, which outranked 96.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.