Name Legacy

Baby names in Alaska, 1950s

1950–1959 · 49,190 recorded births

Michael was the most common name given in Alaska across the 1950s, with 1,357 births in the decade. The state recorded 49,190 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alaska in the 1950s

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
Sophie2813×
Agnes51
Nick47
Lucy77
Pauline72
Elena22
Flora24
Julia107

Top 25 in the 1950s

RankNameBirths
#1Michael1,357
#2John1,349
#3James1,298
#4Robert1,296
#5David1,292
#6William983
#7Richard858
#8Mary826
#9Linda758
#10Debra648
#11Susan646
#12Thomas636
#13Steven621
#14Mark597
#15Patricia548
#16Karen516
#17Charles488
#18Deborah478
#19Barbara457
#20Daniel450
#20Gary450
#22Cynthia422
#23Kenneth420
#24Donald411
#25Ronald400

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