Destine
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Destine has been given to 1,421 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 101 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% girls, 14% boys all-time.
Babies named Destine, 2019
1 in 579,000
Destine over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Destine over time
In 2019, Destine went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Destine?
Destine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 579,000
- 6 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 280,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 401,129 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Destine sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Destine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Destines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Destine was born before 1998 — so the typical Destine is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,222
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (605).
Is Destine rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (101)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Destine
Destine is not the most common spelling — Destiny is, with 57.6% against Destine's 0.46%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Destine is used
Across 1910–2025, Destine was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 309,385 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
- 3Texas1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Mississippi1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Destine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Destine around the world
Where Destine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2011–2011#5,785in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Destine by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Destine
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Destine
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.