Alaska
#2,895 for girls in 2025, 58 births · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 108 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,293since 1915
Alaska over time
Rank among girls' names. Alaska has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,895 | 58 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #2,282 | 81 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,918 | 104 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #2,119 | 89 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,557 | 68 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,915 | 39 | — | |
| 2011 | #5,358 | 25 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,771 | 23 | — | |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 | — | |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | — | |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | — | |
| 2005 | #5,266 | 24 | — | |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | — | |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 | — | |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 | — | |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | — | |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | — | |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | — | |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | — | |
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| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Alaska! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1988, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Alaska
- 613 spots since 2024 (#2,282 → #2,895)
- 1,077 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #2,895)
- 49 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #2,895)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2020 at #1,818 (108 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,968 girls born in 2020 were named Alaska (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,711 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 41.8% of all girls named Alaska (540) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,274 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 6 | #10,847 (1989) | #10,847 |
| 1990s | 77 | #7,283 (1997) | #9,773 |
| 2000s | 187 | #5,266 (2005) | #6,562 |
| 2010s | 478 | #2,357 (2017) | #3,648 |
| 2020s | 540 | #1,818 (2020) | #2,166 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Alaska in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 22,422 of them was named Alaska, which outranked 87.2% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,338Zamora78
- #2,338Zariya78
- #2,338Zayna78
- #2,357Alaska77
- #2,357Abbygail77
- #2,357Alaiyah77
- #2,357Arayah77
- #2,384Aahana76
- #2,384Annalynn76
- #2,384Ayat76
Tied with 26 names at #2,357; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.