Destine
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: to preordain
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɛstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Destine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 470K(measured from records)
- HTHaiti≈1 in 4K
- BEBelgium1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Haiti (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of destinar:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Destine is read(measured from records)
Destine is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
to preordain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Destine in French.
- Spanish8.7%
inflection of destinar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Destine 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HT Haiti | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 4K | listed | — | 4 |
| US United States | 708 | 1 in 470K | 1K | Destine | 192 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Destine | 13 |
| BE Belgium | 164 | 1 in 71K | 164 | Destine | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Destine | 2 |
| MA Morocco | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 330K | — | Destine | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Destine | 3 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Destine is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lld, first-person singular present indicative of destiner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alex DestinéHTHaitian artist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 945 | #27,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 708 | #32,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 423 | #47,210 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #70,290 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Destine come from?
- inflection of destinar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Destine?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Destine mean?
- In English, to preordain
- In which country does Destine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Destine in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Destine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 708 people named Destine in 2010, about 1 in 470 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/destineThe 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, “Destine”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.