Destiny ranks #827 with 141 female registrations. The name is a word-meaning feminine that peaked for human use in the late 1990s, and on a pet license it now functions as a generationally specific revival: millennials naming a dog or cat after a name they grew up with.
The 1990s human cohort
Destiny sat in the top 50 American girl names from 1998 to 2008, fueled partly by Destiny's Child and partly by the broader trend of word-meaning baby names (Serenity, Harmony, Trinity). It has since dropped sharply on baby registries while gaining modest ground on pet licenses. The naming logic on this slice is usually nostalgia: owners who knew a Destiny in middle school now choosing the name for a dog whose temperament fits the word's weight.
Sound and breed lean
Three syllables, front-stressed (DES-ti-nee), with a sibilant opening and a soft -y close. The name calls clearly at moderate distance and tolerates the affectionate diminutive Dessy. Destiny lands across breed types but appears notably on rescue dogs whose adoption stories include the literal sense of the word: dogs whose path to the household felt fated. See the pit bull cluster for the rescue-narrative fit.
The counter-reading
The honest concern is that Destiny carries strong human-coding and a specific generational era-stamp. The human Destiny page shows the late-1990s peak and steady decline. Households who want the meaningful-noun register without the era-coding might look at Luna or Willow.