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Destiny
Say it: DESS-tih-nee
Meaning
From the English word destiny, from Old French destinee.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A modern virtue-style word name that entered the US top 50 in the late 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 2000s
In the United States
- 148,762 babies given this name since 1956
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 184 girls
- 877 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Destinee, Destiney
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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