Destynee

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 7 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Destynee by the numbers

Destynee was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 55 babies in 1999, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Destynee

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Destynee. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Destineedestiny; altered spelling of Destinée156 in the US (2017)
  • Destiniefate or destiny; respelling of Destiny17 in the US (2017)
  • Destinea form of Destiny, fate or predetermined course
  • Destiney36 in the US (2017)
  • Destyn22 in the US (2017)
  • Destyni15 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Destynee

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