How popular is “Destiny” in the USA?

Number of people named “Destiny” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Destiny” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Destiny” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Destiny” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Destiny” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Destiny” by birth year

This chart shows how “Destiny” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1956	5	0.000001213	5		100%
1957	5	0.00000119	5		100%
1959	6	0.000001443	6		100%
1960	9	0.000002167	9		100%
1962	8	0.000001982	8		100%
1963	11	0.000002779	11		100%
1964	13	0.000003344	13		100%
1965	13	0.000003586	13		100%
1966	20	0.000005754	20		100%
1967	13	0.000003829	13		100%
1968	26	0.000007696	26		100%
1969	24	0.000006906	24		100%
1970	37	0.000010259	37		100%
1971	49	0.000014276	49		100%
1972	58	0.000018454	58		100%
1973	86	0.000028506	86		100%
1974	117	0.000038487	117		100%
1975	166	0.000054978	161	5	94%
1976	185	0.00006097	185		100%
1977	211	0.000066425	211		100%
1978	324	0.000102084	324		100%
1979	389	0.000116922	384	5	97%
1980	446	0.000129482	440	6	97%
1981	472	0.000136441	467	5	98%
1982	477	0.000135976	469	8	97%
1983	523	0.00015101	516	7	97%
1984	569	0.000163095	564	5	98%
1985	577	0.000161665	572	5	98%
1986	606	0.000170365	606		100%
1987	821	0.0002277	811	10	98%
1988	960	0.000259808	944	16	97%
1989	1163	0.000302514	1152	11	98%
1990	1415	0.000358003	1408	7	99%
1991	1912	0.000490852	1899	13	99%
1992	2625	0.000683367	2609	16	99%
1993	2960	0.000785088	2942	18	99%
1994	4104	0.001103922	4089	15	99%
1995	5395	0.001473176	5380	15	99%
1996	5870	0.001609456	5856	14	100%
1997	6752	0.001862236	6727	25	99%
1998	8178	0.002223366	8154	24	99%
1999	9193	0.00248872	9172	21	100%
2000	9875	0.0026125	9850	25	99%
2001	9775	0.002611269	9752	23	100%
2002	7824	0.002092935	7805	19	100%
2003	6994	0.001839404	6977	17	100%
2004	6577	0.001721312	6546	31	99%
2005	6910	0.001797212	6894	16	100%
2006	6327	0.001599266	6313	14	100%
2007	5754	0.001439334	5742	12	100%
2008	5331	0.001356259	5318	13	100%
2009	4624	0.001210416	4616	8	100%
2010	3747	0.00101387	3737	10	99%
2011	3283	0.000897536	3273	10	99%
2012	2732	0.000746985	2720	12	99%
2013	2314	0.000634726	2314		100%
2014	2081	0.000561465	2074	7	99%
2015	1732	0.000467993	1732		100%
2016	1615	0.000440211	1601	14	98%
2017	1399	0.000391198	1389	10	99%
2018	1214	0.000345289	1205	9	99%
2019	1064	0.000306546	1051	13	98%
2020	895	0.000267918	889	6	99%
2021	800	0.000236131	800		100%
2022	798	0.000235876	798		100%
2023	712	0.000215028	706	6	98%
2024	638	0.000191678	638		100%

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