What is the most popular baby name in Alaska?

Even on a thin SSA book, Alaska's cumulative #1 boy is Michael (8,407 births) and #1 girl is Mary (4,002 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Alaska over the decades?

Alaska is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Oliver/Amelia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Alaska?

Our data covers 212,283 name registrations in Alaska for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (QUIET volume stamp · #50 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Alaska

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Alaska, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Michael
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 212,283
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Alaska's all-time #1 names are Michael for boys and Mary for girls, based on 212,283 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Alaska has recorded 212,283 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Michael leads all boys with 8,407 births, while Mary tops the girls with 4,002. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Michael #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
212,283 births recorded

Where Alaska sits by recorded name volume

Alaska: 465,495 SSA name registrations (QUIET · rank 50/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Alaska vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

465,495 50th of 51 higher than 1 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Alaska naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 4,002 cumulative SSA births in Alaska ≠ Charlotte #1 of 172 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Michael is #1 of 8,407 cumulative SSA births in Alaska ≠ Noah #1 of 202 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Noah
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Michael
all-time boys #1, 2025 #17

Both sexes in Alaska already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a thin registry book shows for Alaska

Alaska sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (465,495 · QUIET · #50/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Michael (8,407 boy births) and Mary (4,002 girl births) across 212,283 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 139,475 vs 72,808 for girls.

In Alaska, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Alaska extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Oliver for boys and Amelia for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Charlotte

32
Amelia

31
Emma

29
Evelyn

26
Penelope

24
Aurora

24
Violet

24
Olivia

24
Eleanor

23
Ellie

21

What this shows Charlotte leads 2025 girls in Alaska; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Noah

46
Theodore

45
Henry

44
Oliver

41
James

39
William

36
Elias

33
Liam

31
Elijah

30
Levi

29

What this shows Noah leads 2025 boys in Alaska; Michael remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

4,002
Elizabeth

2,970
Jennifer

2,961
Jessica

2,651
Sarah

2,616
Amanda

1,894
Michelle

1,829
Emily

1,804
Rebecca

1,741
Ashley

1,677

What this shows Mary leads Alaska girls with 4,002 recorded births.

Michael

8,407
John

7,377
James

7,115
David

6,748
Robert

6,494
William

5,775
Christopher

4,575
Daniel

4,212
Joseph

4,102
Matthew

3,663

What this shows Michael leads Alaska boys with 8,407 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Alaska for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	194	Mary	189
1920s	John	271	Mary	315
1930s	John	280	Mary	326
1940s	John	563	Mary	523
1950s	Michael	1,357	Mary	826
1960s	Michael	1,367	Mary	687
1970s	Michael	1,433	Jennifer	1,217
1980s	Michael	1,720	Jessica	1,379
1990s	Michael	1,137	Jessica	715
2000s	Jacob	590	Madison	462
2010s	Liam	507	Emma	506
2020s	Oliver	276	Amelia	220

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Michael	8,407
2	John	7,377
3	James	7,115
4	David	6,748
5	Robert	6,494
6	William	5,775
7	Christopher	4,575
8	Daniel	4,212
9	Joseph	4,102
10	Matthew	3,663
11	Thomas	3,487
12	Richard	3,431
13	Joshua	3,276
14	Andrew	2,851
15	Charles	2,821
16	Jacob	2,645
17	Ryan	2,508
18	Steven	2,505
19	Jason	2,432
20	Paul	2,300
21	Brian	2,293
22	Mark	2,261
23	Timothy	2,250
24	Benjamin	2,236
25	Anthony	2,156
26	Kevin	2,027
27	Kenneth	2,005
28	Justin	1,917
29	Nicholas	1,890
30	Samuel	1,883
31	Eric	1,879
32	George	1,874
33	Brandon	1,794
34	Aaron	1,785
35	Patrick	1,778
36	Tyler	1,735
37	Jonathan	1,704
38	Alexander	1,689
39	Peter	1,645
40	Edward	1,574
41	Kyle	1,566
42	Zachary	1,549
43	Scott	1,533
44	Donald	1,525
45	Jeffrey	1,471
46	Nathan	1,455
47	Jack	1,415
48	Ronald	1,314
49	Gregory	1,276
50	Sean	1,272

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	4,002
2	Elizabeth	2,970
3	Jennifer	2,961
4	Jessica	2,651
5	Sarah	2,616
6	Amanda	1,894
7	Michelle	1,829
8	Emily	1,804
9	Rebecca	1,741
10	Ashley	1,677
11	Anna	1,563
12	Patricia	1,548
13	Kimberly	1,525
14	Heather	1,509
15	Katherine	1,491
16	Linda	1,476
17	Karen	1,469
18	Emma	1,459
19	Lisa	1,454
20	Samantha	1,432
21	Susan	1,432
22	Margaret	1,425
23	Stephanie	1,407
24	Laura	1,385
25	Hannah	1,344
26	Melissa	1,340
27	Rachel	1,299
28	Angela	1,237
29	Nicole	1,234
30	Olivia	1,218
31	Amy	1,179
32	Barbara	1,178
33	Cynthia	1,156
34	Megan	1,147
35	Christina	1,146
36	Amber	1,144
37	Kathleen	1,085
38	Madison	1,004
39	Abigail	974
40	Deborah	973
41	Sandra	970
42	Danielle	968
43	Christine	968
44	Sharon	951
45	Victoria	948
46	Debra	936
47	Sophia	930
48	Donna	927
49	Alice	923
50	Grace	909

Read with Alaska

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Alaska · QUIET · TREND-LED).

QUIET TREND-LED

Wyoming · QUIET

451,965 SSA registrations (near-scale with Alaska; ABS Δ 13,530). Leader lane may differ from Alaska's TREND-LED.

Vermont · QUIET

576,192 SSA registrations (near-scale with Alaska; ABS Δ 110,697). Leader lane may differ from Alaska's TREND-LED.

Delaware · QUIET

683,868 SSA registrations (1.5× Alaska's registry; ABS Δ 218,373). Leader lane may differ from Alaska's TREND-LED.

Montana · QUIET

1,019,300 SSA registrations (2.2× Alaska's registry; ABS Δ 553,805). Leader lane may differ from Alaska's TREND-LED.

New Mexico (volume-lane contrast)

Near Alaska on SSA registration volume yet stamps SPARSE vs QUIET.

Why names rise and fall

Alaska stamps QUIET · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.