Alaska
About Alaska
State name Alaska stems from an Aleutian word for the land mass itself. The number of baby girls named Alaska has doubled in the past five years, and is sure to continue increasing as more place names are annexed as baby names. Wilder but as habitable as Dakota or Cheyenne, Alaska is a girls' name choice for the future.
As of October 2026, Alaska ranked #2896 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1830 in 2020.
Editor's take: The name Alaska is a girl's name of Native American origin meaning "great land".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,330 | 48 | 26.9 |
| 2015 | #2,847 | 61 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | #3,184 | 51 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | #2,359 | 77 | 44.6 |
| 2018 | #2,559 | 68 | 40 |
| 2019 | #3,390 | 46 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | #1,830 | 107 | 66.2 |
| 2021 | #2,118 | 89 | 54.2 |
| 2022 | #1,940 | 102 | 62.2 |
| 2023 | #1,963 | 100 | 62.3 |
| 2024 | #2,274 | 81 | 50 |
| 2025 | #2,896 | 58 | 36.1 |
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Alaska.
- Blue
- Love
- Ocean
- Rebel
- Story
- Crimson
- Pixie
- Lake
- True
- Coral
- Bloom
- Ivory
- Peppi
- Memphis
- Onyx
- Moxie
- Snow
- Storm
- Emerald
- Lyric
Alaska on lists
Famous Alaskas
- Alaska Packard Davidson
first woman special agent in the FBI
- Alaska
stage name of Maria Olvido Gara Jova, Spanish,Mexican singer
- Alaska Thunderf*ck 5000
stage name of Justin Honard, American drag queen of "Rupaul's Drag Race"
- Alaska Taufa
Tongan male rugby union player
- Alaska Cahan (b. 2015)
daughter of supermodel Anne Vyalitsyna
- Alaska Luxe Harvey (b. 2016)
daughter of blogger Kyree Harvey
- Maxime Alaska Bossieux (b. 2011)
daughter of musicians Richard Z. Kruspe of Rammstein and Margaux Bossieux
Alaska in pop culture
- Alaska Young
title character in John Green's "Looking for Alaska"