Destiny
Destiny is ranked 481st among girls in 2024 (638 births). Its best rank was 22nd, in 2001.
- Rank in 2024
- #481down 42 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6380.04% of girls
- Peak year
- 20009,850 births
- Best rank
- #22in 2001
- Since 1956
- 151,282people given the name
The story in the numbers
151,282 girls have been named Destiny in the United States since 1956, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 9,850 births — 0.54% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 156 → 481).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 46%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 18 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Destiny | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 16 | |
| 1960s | 137 | |
| 1970s | 1,612 | |
| 1980s | 6,541 | |
| 1990s | 48,236 | |
| 2000s | 69,813 | |
| 2010s | 21,096 | |
| 2020s | 3,831 |
In 2000, its biggest year
Destiny was the 24th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2000 were Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Destiny
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sydneypeak 2000
- Shyannapeak 2001
- Sydneepeak 2003
- Mikailapeak 2001
- Sydniepeak 2000
- Nijahpeak 1998
- Macaylapeak 2000
- Madisenpeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.