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I think it's a little corny, too corny for my style by far. But I don't feel nearly as negatively about it as I did around 1995, when I met my first Destiny (a sickly Pomeranian whose dam was named Lexus). I sneered at it then.

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I wouldn't say it has grown on me, but I do think of it as an ordinary name now, not stupid, and not totally unattractive. Just ever so slightly tawdry, in the same way that Desiree is (and I do like Desiree) because it could be interpreted to imply that the bearer herself is someone else's destiny, an object of desire ... which is not a very high-minded motif for a name, and I care about that a little bit. Of course that interpretation is in the mind of the beholder, since the word Destiny is just abstract, it's not truly tacky like Coquette or Delicious or something like that. I also don't personally like the sounds in the word destiny, as name-sounds. Anyway if I met a Destiny I would not even bat an eye ... it's just a name that was a fad, like Brittany or Nevaeh.

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I doubt that it usually comes with a story. People probably just like it, and make up the story afterwards. That's ok.

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- mirfak