girls:
1.2k births since 1915
#4565 (20th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 2022
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1915
#6581 (15th percentile)
The name Alaska is the #6,581 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,159 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 14.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,565 (20.1% percentile) for all time with 1,151 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 2022.
Alaska first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Alaska is available in 35 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (35 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Alaska has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Alaska reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #838) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 61 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Alaska ranks #852 for girls (10.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 94.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Alaska reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #921) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Alaska".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Alaska. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Alaska is pronounced as uh-LA-skuh, which has 3 syllables.
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