Popular baby names in Alaska
In 2025, Alaska's top baby names were Charlotte for girls and Noah for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names Alaska likes far more than the rest of the country, the number-one names decade by decade, and every year's list back to 1910.
Top 20 names in Alaska, 2025
Names Alaska likes more than the rest of the country
Alaska favorites
Among the state's 100 most-given names in 2021–2025 and at least twice as common there as in the rest of the US.
- Juniper (girls): #19 in Alaska, 6.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Ember (girls): #29 in Alaska, 6.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Freya (girls): #50 in Alaska, 4.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Aurora (girls): #3 in Alaska, 4.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Iris (girls): #32 in Alaska, 3.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Athena (girls): #44 in Alaska, 3.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Hazel (girls): #8 in Alaska, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Isla (girls): #12 in Alaska, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Adeline (girls): #40 in Alaska, 3.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Penelope (girls): #10 in Alaska, 3.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Dawson (boys): #74 in Alaska, 3.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Willow (girls): #17 in Alaska, 3.3× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in Alaska by decade
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Years with fewer than 20 recorded names for either sex have no page of their own; the number-one names above still cover them.