Destiny is derived from the English word ‘destiny’ meaning ‘fate’, which in turn is derived from the Latin word ‘destinare’ meaning ‘to determine’.
Destiny is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Destiny isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Destiny ranks 194. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Destiny. In the entire USA, approximately 147,980 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Destiny. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Destiny is derived from the English word ‘destiny’ meaning ‘fate’, which in turn is derived from the Latin word ‘destinare’ meaning ‘to determine’.
What does 'destined' mean? When something is destined or fated to be, it means that this certain course of action was predetermined and cannot be changed.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Destiny is one of them. However, Destiny is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Nevada seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,144 women called Destiny who live here are 0,256% of all female residents and push their name up to #90, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Nevada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Destiny has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Destiny and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Destiny, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Destiny
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Destiny sounds like this:
