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Destiny, for me, is exactly the opposite of a pioneer girl in a bonnet with blueberry muffins. That's Annie, Jessie, Lila, Mary, or Sarah. Destiny is with names like Taffi and Nevaeh. It's pretty classless, for me, and doesn't begin to aspire to Grace, Mercy, or Autumn. I'd say it doesn't even aspire to Brittany or Tiffany.

I just think it sounds silly, sorry. I don't think of pioneers, that's for sure! But nor do I think of strippers.

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To me it's a wannabe-virtue name that misses the point of virtue. It tends to get classed with virtue names but when you think about it, it's really not a virtue. To me, the fact that some people think having a destiny is a virtue demonstrates everything that is wrong with our celebrity-driven culture.

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So... to me it's a trendy/consumerist/celebrity name in the same class as things like Chanel, Lexus, Mercedes and so on. Definitely not my style.

I'm not sure where I'd put Destiny but it's certainly not a virtue / religious name in my mind although I'm sure to many, it might be. I do know of sibs named Trinity Grace and Destiny Love and I'm pretty sure the religious aspect was what the parents were going for (ack!).

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It just seems like such a loaded name. It's too much to live up to. What if the child doesn't succeed in a conventional way? Was that her destiny? Then there's the girl of the same name my oldest dd had as a friend in high school who took her life. What a horrible event. What a horrible name to have been given in light of this. Sorry, this is probably TMI; I was just thinking about her today.

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So no, Destiny doesn't belong with Grace, Mercy or Joy. I'd say it belongs with a more tryndee set of names.

This message was edited 8/20/2012, 2:04 PM

I don't necessarily think of it as a total stripper name, but it's about as far removed from a "muffin-baking pioneer girl" name as it could possibly be. For me, Destiny doesn't fit in at all with names like Grace, Mercy, or Autumn, but it's not a Tiffany-Brittany style name either. I lump it in more with names like Nevaeh, Trinity, Lexus, and Brooklyn--recently coined, quasi-virtue and/or acquisitive, and downmarket.

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It's pretty,but I wouldn't like to be named Destiny. It's too, I guess you'd say, elevated for common use.

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"Destiny! do you need to pee? Tell Mummy!"

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If I got called that, I'd quickly be sure I was always called Dessy.

It's my Destiny not to like this name one bit.

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It's a name I swear I see on Jerry Springer at least once a month. That is something I can't even say about Tiffany or Brittany.

This message was edited 8/20/2012, 10:19 AM

I think it's cheesy, and the LAST thing I think of is a pioneer girl wearing a bonnet. I think "stripper". I'd say it's definitely more in the Tiffany/Brittany league.

Well, it was definitely not used in pioneer times. It isn't on the SSA lists till fairly recently. And even Autumn and Grace are not the same kind of name. Again, Grace can be considered a pioneer name since it was very popular back then, but Autumn wasn't used till maybe thirty or so years ago.

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Destiny is a tacky, trashy, low-class, almost laughably so, name. It doesn't seem to have followed the Brittany path. Brittany started out as a name that well-off, upper-class coastal parents used. Destiny didn't seem to start at the top. It started from the bottom and has not moved up very far.

For me it's up there with Star, Heaven, and Justice - it's not a name in my opinion, it's a word. And yeah, I find it really trashy.