Destiny
#635 for girls in 2025, 458 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 9,752 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 18 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 151,763since 1956
Destiny over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #635 | 458 | — | |
| 2024 | #481 | 643 | — | |
| 2023 | #438 | 708 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #391 | 798 | — | |
| 2021 | #392 | 801 | — | |
| 2020 | #347 | 891 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #309 | 1,052 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #275 | 1,206 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #226 | 1,389 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #203 | 1,603 | #6,053 | 14 |
| 2015 | #186 | 1,733 | — | |
| 2014 | #156 | 2,077 | #9,642 | 7 |
| 2013 | #138 | 2,314 | — | |
| 2012 | #113 | 2,720 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #90 | 3,273 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #71 | 3,737 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #56 | 4,617 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #47 | 5,320 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #41 | 5,742 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #36 | 6,313 | #5,781 | 14 |
| 2005 | #32 | 6,894 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #38 | 6,546 | #3,158 | 31 |
| 2003 | #37 | 6,977 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #34 | 7,804 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #22 | 9,752 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #24 | 9,850 | #3,299 | 25 |
| 1999 | #28 | 9,172 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | #34 | 8,155 | #3,191 | 24 |
| 1997 | #42 | 6,727 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #56 | 5,856 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #66 | 5,380 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #86 | 4,089 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #111 | 2,942 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #130 | 2,610 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #156 | 1,899 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #202 | 1,408 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #238 | 1,153 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #268 | 944 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | #299 | 811 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #382 | 606 | — | |
| 1985 | #391 | 572 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #389 | 564 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #421 | 516 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #454 | 469 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #458 | 467 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #478 | 440 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #514 | 384 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #547 | 324 | — | |
| 1977 | #727 | 211 | — | |
| 1976 | #774 | 185 | — | |
| 1975 | #833 | 161 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #1,023 | 117 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,226 | 86 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,578 | 58 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,431 | 26 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,656 | 13 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,549 | 13 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,019 | 11 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 | — | |
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| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | — | |
| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Destiny! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1958, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Destiny is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Idaho#200 · 1 in 955
- Iowa#311 · 1 in 2,324
- Kansas#319 · 1 in 1,919
- Utah#329 · 1 in 1,896
- Missouri#347 · 1 in 2,555
Best ever in a state: #3 in New Mexico, 2000.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | #200 | 7 | 1 in 955 |
| Iowa | #311 | 8 | 1 in 2,324 |
| Kansas | #319 | 7 | 1 in 1,919 |
| Utah | #329 | 8 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Missouri | #347 | 12 | 1 in 2,555 |
| Washington | #361 | 10 | 1 in 2,294 |
| Colorado | #385 | 7 | 1 in 2,471 |
| North Carolina | #401 | 11 | 1 in 2,943 |
| Arizona | #404 | 7 | 1 in 2,341 |
| Wisconsin | #431 | 7 | 1 in 4,138 |
| Louisiana | #443 | 10 | 1 in 2,752 |
| Oregon | #454 | 5 | 1 in 3,089 |
| Tennessee | #458 | 8 | 1 in 3,483 |
| Indiana | #466 | 9 | 1 in 3,866 |
| Texas | #484 | 33 | 1 in 3,133 |
| Ohio | #495 | 15 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Minnesota | #506 | 5 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Georgia | #545 | 8 | 1 in 4,031 |
| California | #573 | 38 | 1 in 4,035 |
| Virginia | #600 | 5 | 1 in 5,568 |
| Florida | #607 | 10 | 1 in 4,402 |
| Illinois | #614 | 14 | 1 in 5,065 |
| Michigan | #645 | 9 | 1 in 6,394 |
| Pennsylvania | #737 | 8 | 1 in 8,250 |
| New Jersey | #803 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| New York | #1,171 | 8 | 1 in 12,291 |
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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 Destiny
- 154 spots since 2024 (#481 → #635)
- 288 spots since 2020 (#347 → #635)
- 449 spots since 2015 (#186 → #635)
- Biggest jump: 190 spots in 1975 (#1,023 → #833)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2025 (#481 → #635)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2001 at #22 (9,752 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 18 yrs · run 1994–2011
- Top 1,000: 51 yrs · run 1975–2025
- Highest: 1 in 184 girls born in 2000 were named Destiny (0.54%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,509 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #22 in 2001, was only 1 in 185 (0.54%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 46.0% of all girls named Destiny (69,815) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | #5,566 (1959) | #5,868 |
| 1960s | 137 | #2,431 (1968) | #3,567 |
| 1970s | 1,612 | #514 (1979) | #1,119 |
| 1980s | 6,542 | #238 (1989) | #378 |
| 1990s | 48,238 | #28 (1999) | #91 |
| 2000s | 69,815 | #22 (2001) | #37 |
| 2010s | 21,104 | #71 (2010) | #177 |
| 2020s | 4,299 | #347 (2020) | #447 |
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.
Destiny in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 4,728 of them was named Destiny, which outranked 95.2% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.