Alaska
Alaska was given to 58 girls in 2025, #2,896 among girls’ names; 1,306 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,290 Americans named Alaska and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alaska by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alaska?
#2,896 among girls’ names, 2025
Alaska fell from #2,847 in 2015 to #2,896 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 34.2 to 36.1 per million.
112 babies in 2022, the peak
Alaska peaked in 2022, when 112 babies were given it (104 girls, #1,919 among girls’ names). The 63 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,896 | 36.1 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,282 | 50.0 |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,965 | 62.3 |
| 2022 | 104 | #1,919 | 63.4 |
| 2021 | 89 | #2,119 | 54.2 |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,818 | 66.8 |
| 2019 | 46 | #3,389 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,560 | 40.0 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,359 | 44.6 |
| 2016 | 51 | #3,185 | 28.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,847 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,328 | 26.9 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,782 | 22.8 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,917 | 22.1 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,361 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,780 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,556 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,288 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,097 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,857 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,270 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,277 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,891 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,132 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,619 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,704 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,818 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,540 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,301 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,832 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,136 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,576 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,770 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,188 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,998 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,873 | 3.3 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,283 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Alaska a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alaska has been given almost only to girls: 13 boys in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Alaska: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alaska, and how old are they?
1,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,306 Americans ever recorded as Alaska. The median Alaska alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 801 people named Alaska (729 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 48 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 305 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 938 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,484 babies since 1880, Alaska is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 87 babies (72%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alaska
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alaska and names like it
- Compare Alaska and AleskaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAlaska peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alaska since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Alaska.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Alaska alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.