Destinée
given name · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of destiné
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Destinée is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 22nd most common given name.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 4.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 27K
- BBBarbados≈1 in 97K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Destinee in US United States, CA Canada, CG Congo - Brazzaville and 1 more and Destinèe in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)feminine singular of destiné
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Destinée counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #116 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Destinèe | 4 |
| US United States | — | 12,483 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Destinee | 315 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #28 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Destinee | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 242K | 1 | Destinee | 56 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Destinée | 2 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Destinée | 4 |
| BB Barbados | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 2 | — | 9 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #22 | — | — | — | Destinee | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Destinée Ermela Doukagab. 1983CGCongolese politician, writer and pilot (* 1983)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Destinée mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of destiné Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Destinée a male or female name?
- Destinée is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Destinée have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Destinée in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled destinèe.
- How common is the name Destinée?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,483 people named Destinée in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Destinée compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Destinée is the 116th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Destinée?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/destin%C3%A9eThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Destinée” — the 116th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.