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Desteni

Girl · DES-tuh-nee · English

Desteni is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “fate”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Desteni mean?

English: spelling of Desteny, itself a variant of Destiny, from Old French destinée

“fate”

A variant spelling of Destiny, the English word for fate, from Old French destinée.

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DES-tuh-nee

Meaning borrowed from Desteny.

Is Desteni a girl's or a boy's name?

Desteni is a girls' name.

How popular is Desteni in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.

Half of all the girls named Desteni in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1991Busiest: 20 in 20012013
Desteni in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20136#14,577
20120–
20116#14,816
20107#13,442
20098#12,423
200810#10,802
20076#15,485
20069#11,412
200514#7,886
20045#16,092
20039#10,420
200211#8,831
200120#5,565
200015#6,802
199915#6,478
19989#9,254
199711#7,737
199610#8,127
19950–
19945#13,423
199311#7,491
19920–
19915#13,139

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