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Destry

The boy's name Destry has been in the national records since 1955, with 1,647 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 1,500 Destrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Destry boys named Destry

By the numbers

Total US births
1,647
Estimated living today
1,500
Median age today
37
Peak year
1964
Best rank
637th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1955
Girls / boys
145 / 1,502

How old the living Destrys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,647 babies given the name since 1955, about 1,500 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Destry is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Destry is most concentrated in Texas (3.7×), California (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1964

The most popular boys’ names the year Destry peaked:

All the names of 1964

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Destry against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.