Popular baby names in Alaska, 1951

The most popular baby names in Alaska in 1951 were Linda for girls (80 babies) and Robert for boys (102). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,081 babies born in Alaska in 1951 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Alaska in 1951

Names given at least 15 times in Alaska that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Ruth: 21 babies, 4× the national rate
Alice: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Martha: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Katherine: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Catherine: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Elizabeth: 26 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Margaret: 28 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Raymond: 26 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Harold: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Alaska, 1951

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Linda	80	↑1	1
2	Mary	77	↓1	2
3	Patricia	45	↑1	3
4	Susan	45	↑1	6
5	Barbara	35	↓2	5
6	Kathleen	29	↑1	10
7	Sandra	29	↑10	9
8	Margaret	28	↓2	17
9	Carol	27	↑2	11
10	Elizabeth	26	↑2	23
11	Nancy	26	↑2	7
12	Debra	24	new	18
13	Deborah	22	↑20	4
14	Martha	22	↑22	38
15	Pamela	22	↑3	16
16	Catherine	21	↑12	34
17	Ruth	21	↑5	53
18	Cynthia	20	↓4	20
19	Janice	19	↑15	21
20	Sharon	19	↓10	13
21	Janet	18	↓6	19
22	Cheryl	17	↓6	30
23	Karen	17	↓14	8
24	Diane	16	↑5	15
25	Alice	15	↑12	62
26	Betty	15	↑1	29
27	Christine	15	↑13	24
28	Judy	15	↓7	26
29	Katherine	15	↑13	55
30	Shirley	15	↓5	27
31	Donna	13	↓23	12
32	Helen	13	new	54
33	Marilyn	13	↓2	41
34	Jane	12	new	43
35	Virginia	12	↓3	47
36	Doris	11	new	80
37	Gail	11	new	36
38	Jean	11	new	49
39	Judith	11	↓16	25
40	Kathy	11	new	35
41	Marie	11	↓17	78
42	Rebecca	11	↑3	32
43	Carolyn	10	↓4	22
44	Esther	10	new	>100
45	Frances	10	↓25	59
46	Joyce	10	new	28
47	Julia	10	new	>100
48	Ann	9	new	46
49	Beverly	9	new	33
50	Dorothy	9	↓31	42

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Robert	102	–	2
2	John	100	–	3
3	James	90	–	1
4	David	87	–	5
5	Michael	80	↑1	4
6	Richard	70	↑1	7
7	William	70	↓2	6
8	Thomas	54	–	8
9	Steven	48	–	13
10	Charles	42	↑7	9
11	Daniel	38	↑4	21
12	Paul	37	↑10	18
13	Gary	30	↓3	10
14	George	30	↓3	22
15	Kenneth	29	↑11	16
16	Larry	27	↑11	11
17	Ronald	27	↓3	12
18	Joseph	26	↓5	14
19	Raymond	26	↑15	32
20	Douglas	23	new	27
21	Donald	22	↓9	15
22	Stephen	22	↑9	19
23	Timothy	22	↑5	28
24	Frank	18	↑6	31
25	Gregory	18	–	25
26	Dennis	17	↓5	17
27	Mark	17	↓9	20
28	Harold	16	new	46
29	Peter	16	↓13	38
30	Bruce	14	↓11	26
31	Edward	14	↓11	23
32	Roy	14	new	52
33	Arthur	13	↓4	44
34	Carl	13	↑7	43
35	Wayne	13	↑12	37
36	Christopher	12	↑14	61
37	Jack	12	new	48
38	Patrick	12	new	39
39	Eric	11	new	93
40	Howard	11	new	74
41	Johnny	11	new	50
42	Lawrence	11	↓5	33
43	Walter	11	↓20	42
44	Eugene	10	new	65
45	Gerald	10	new	36
46	Henry	10	↓14	47
47	Jerry	10	↓5	24
48	Martin	10	new	81
49	Norman	10	↓5	90
50	Glenn	9	new	58

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