Feminine dossier · first seen 1956

Destiny

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Destiny
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 93.5% from peak

Peak era

2000

Peak rank proxy

9,850

Current vitality

Fragile

Generation

Gen Z

1956Peak 20002024

Peak year

2000

Decline from peak

93.5%

2024

638

All-time

151,282

Destiny once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 2000, when 9,850 girls were named Destiny.

In 2024, only 638 girls were given the name.

Down 93.5% from its peak.

All told, about 151,282 Americans have been named Destiny and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1956.

Rarity scoreUncommon

AssociationGen Z

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 93.5% from peak

20009,850 girls named Destiny

2024638 girls named Destiny

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