Name Legacy

Baby names in Alaska, 2000s

2000–2009 · 56,692 recorded births

Jacob was the most common name given in Alaska across the 2000s, with 590 births in the decade. The state recorded 56,692 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alaska in the 2000s

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
Denali3924×
Aurora156
Orion37
Willow44
Dawson105
Elias118
Natasha59
Cadence67

Top 25 in the 2000s

RankNameBirths
#1Jacob590
#2Michael580
#3Ethan552
#4James527
#5Joseph495
#6Joshua487
#7William470
#8Madison462
#9Tyler453
#10Emma438
#11Emily422
#12Matthew414
#13Logan410
#14David405
#15Daniel403
#16Alexander402
#17Andrew392
#18John388
#19Dylan386
#20Hannah380
#20Samuel380
#22Benjamin377
#23Gabriel365
#24Noah352
#25Abigail345

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