Name Legacy

Baby names in Alaska, 1960s

1960–1969 · 54,244 recorded births

Michael was the most common name given in Alaska across the 1960s, with 1,367 births in the decade. The state recorded 54,244 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alaska in the 1960s

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
Wassillie8212×
Sophie16
Agnes28
Nick68
Lucy67
Hannah15
Vera43
Roberta110

Top 25 in the 1960s

RankNameBirths
#1Michael1,367
#2David1,355
#3John1,331
#4Robert1,234
#5James1,168
#6William802
#7Richard733
#8Mary687
#9Mark684
#10Lisa595
#11Thomas538
#12Daniel516
#13Karen486
#14Steven477
#15Joseph457
#16Kenneth444
#17Timothy441
#18Charles440
#19Brian438
#19Michelle438
#21Kimberly421
#22Kevin417
#23Scott414
#24Paul408
#25Susan407

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