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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Alaska is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#527 · 1 in 2,303
- Kentucky#630 · 1 in 2,810
- Indiana#1,042 · 1 in 5,625
- Michigan#1,217 · 1 in 7,410
- Ohio#1,423 · 1 in 9,525
Best ever in a state: #527 in Utah, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #527 | 7 | 1 in 2,303 |
| Kentucky | #630 | 6 | 1 in 2,810 |
| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 5,625 |
| Michigan | #1,217 | 5 | 1 in 7,410 |
| Ohio | #1,423 | 5 | 1 in 9,525 |
| Florida | #1,882 | 6 | 1 in 14,356 |
| Texas | #2,952 | 6 | 1 in 27,129 |
| California | #3,227 | 5 | 1 in 34,755 |
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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 |
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| 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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 15,770 of them was named Alaska, which outranked 89.2% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,907Nour105
- #1,907Santana105
- #1,907Story105
- #1,918Alaska104
- #1,918Adaleigh104
- #1,918Asma104
- #1,918Charm104
- #1,930Abriella103
- #1,930Anabella103
- #1,930Audra103
Tied with 11 names at #1,918; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 218,251 of them was named Alaska, which outranked 37.3% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,300Zyel9
- #8,300Zymari9
- #8,300Zyre9
- #8,990Alaska8
- #8,990Aadarsh8
- #8,990Aadish8
- #8,990Aalim8
- #9,823Aaban7
- #9,823Aarik7
- #9,823Aashay7
Tied with 832 names at #8,990; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.