Kestrel
Recorded for both sexesGen Z2025 rank
#6,985
up +4,675 places
2025 births
16
up +8 births
All-time births
312
5% of them in 2025
More common than
78%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2019
- 19 births
- Best rank
- #6,300
- in 2019
- First recorded
- 1985
- #9,938 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2011
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 33 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201919#6,300Peak
- 201417#7,157
- 201716#7,262
- 202216#7,132
- 202516#6,985
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #6,300 in 2019 · peak births 19 in 2019
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 8% boys■ 92% girls
27 boys · 312 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Kestrel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.