Name Legacy

Baby names in Alaska, 1930s

1930–1939 · 5,354 recorded births

Mary was the most common name given in Alaska across the 1930s, with 326 births in the decade. The state recorded 5,354 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alaska in the 1930s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Alexie5490×
Natalia612×
Nick2211×
Simeon511×
Agnes5910×
Peter98
Sophie12
Lucy28

Top 25 in the 1930s

RankNameBirths
#1Mary326
#2John280
#3Robert207
#4William198
#5James147
#6George143
#7David117
#8Richard116
#9Elizabeth107
#10Margaret103
#11Paul100
#12Peter98
#13Alice94
#14Donald93
#15Edward86
#16Henry85
#17Frank83
#18Helen82
#19Martha81
#20Charles80
#21Joseph75
#22Anna64
#22Betty64
#22Marie64
#25Virginia61

Other decades in Alaska

All Alaska names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org