Destiny

girls:

150.6k births since 1956

#262 (95th percentile)

boys:

526 births since 1975

#4060 (11th percentile)

overall:

151.2k births since 1956

#498 (94th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Destiny".

1956 2023 19562023

Key Statistics

Total Births
150,625
Peak Births
9,850
Peak Year
2001
First Recorded
1956
Peak Percentile
97.7%
Current Percentile
57.7%
Peak Rank
#22
Current Rank
#401
Female statistics
Total Births
526
Peak Births
31
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
3.1%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#660
Current Rank
#910
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Destiny

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Destiny. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 53.2% confident that Destiny is pronounced as DEH-stuh-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-stih-nee, at 34.0% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Destiny. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Destiny, please vote using the thumbs up button.

DEH-stah-nee (3 syllables)
1 name 1.2k births
D EH1 S T AA0 N IY0

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DEH-stai-nee (3 syllables)
1 name 297 births
D EH1 S T AY0 N IY0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D EH1 S T AH0 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.