Destinee
Pronounced D EH1 S T IH0 N IY1 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1999
- 52 years in use
- 2 spellings
How popular is Destinee?
Destinee is a girls' name, and first appears in 1973. It has been given to 24,470 children — the 821st most common girls' name on record.
It is falling away, down 77% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1999, when 1,462 children were given it.
Two other spellings are counted in that total — Destiney and Desteney — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Destinee and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Destiney
- Desteney
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- D EH1 S T IH0 N IY1 · D EH1 S T IH1 N IY1 · D EH1 S T IY1 N EY1 · D IH2 T IY1 N EY1
- Stress pattern:
- 101 · 111 · 111 · 211
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Destinee
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Destinee
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Destinee?
- Destinee ranks 821st among girls' names in US records, with 24,470 births since 1973. Over the past decade it accounts for 1,485.
- Is Destinee a unisex name?
- No. Destinee is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Destinee most popular?
- 1999, when 1,462 children were given the name. It has been in use for 52 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Destinee spelled?
- Destiney, Desteney. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.