Entry № 2435 · English origin

Destiny Destiny — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DES-tih-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Fate / what is destined (Destiny's Child + Destiny Etiko)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "fate / what is destined (destiny's child + destiny etiko)".

Destiny is from the Latin destinata ("a thing destined, predetermined fate"). Destiny Cyrus — Miley Cyrus's birth name. Destiny Hope Cyrus is Miley's full birth name. The name is also closely associated with the 2014 Activision Blizzard video-game franchise Destiny and Destiny 2.

Fate / what is destined.

The name in its native script.

Destiny
Transliteration
Destiny
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɛs.tə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Destiny stands.

Destiny does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Destinys before her.

Real people
Destiny Etiko
Nigerian Nollywood actress.
born 1989
Miley Cyrus (Destiny Hope)
Birth name of Miley Cyrus.
born 1992
Destiny Watford
American Goldman Prize activist.
born 1995
In fiction
Destiny's Child
R&B vocal group.
1990

Names connected to Destiny.

The number behind Destiny.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Destiny reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.