Kestrel — #11368 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Kestrel

The Social Security Administration has registered 296 babies named Kestrel between 1985 and 2024, spanning 40 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Kestrel currently holds the #11368 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Kestrel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 2012.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kestrel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 115 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kestrel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Kestrel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kestrel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 296 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.