Name Legacy

Baby names in Alaska, 2010s

2010–2019 · 56,229 recorded births

Liam was the most common name given in Alaska across the 2010s, with 507 births in the decade. The state recorded 56,229 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to Alaska in the 2010s

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
Paxson5899×
Hatcher3144×
Denali2714×
Aurora326
Orion99
Gideon83
Odin56
Mckinley64

Top 25 in the 2010s

RankNameBirths
#1Liam507
#2Emma506
#3Olivia478
#4James464
#5William432
#6Sophia411
#7Noah392
#8Logan389
#9Mason368
#10Michael366
#11Elijah361
#12Wyatt360
#13Jacob350
#13Oliver350
#15Gabriel345
#16Joseph343
#17Ethan342
#18Ava337
#19Isabella335
#20Amelia329
#21Aurora326
#22Benjamin324
#23Lucas322
#24Abigail316
#25David310

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