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Top names in Alaska
The names most likely to appear on 1920 Alaska birth certificates, ranked by SSA state records. The SSA recorded 434 Alaska births in 1920 across 48 distinct names.
Distinctively Alaska
Names that rank far higher here than they do nationally — the ones that say Alaska more than they say America.
- #19Katie#184 nationally
- #25Patricia#104 nationally
- #24Lorraine#70 nationally
- #9Agnes#54 nationally
- #9Andrew#49 nationally
- #16Elsie#51 nationally
Girls
- #1Mary38US #1
- #2Margaret19US #4
- #3Helen14US #3
- #4Ruth14US #5
- #5Martha11US #23
- #6Elizabeth10US #8
- #7Virginia10US #7
- #8Florence9US #16
- #9Agnes8US #54
- #10Dorothy8US #2
- #11Alice7US #15
- #12Anna7US #10
- #13Edith7US #32
- #14Annie6US #35
- #15Betty6US #11
- #16Elsie6US #51
- #17Ethel6US #30
- #18Irene6US #17
- #19Katie6US #184
- #20Rose6US #20
- #21Frances5US #9
- #22Hazel5US #34
- #23Katherine5US #45
- #24Lorraine5US #70
- #25Patricia5US #104
Boys
- #1John21US #1
- #2William19US #2
- #3Paul16US #14
- #4George15US #6
- #5James14US #4
- #6Robert12US #3
- #7Joseph9US #7
- #8Thomas9US #11
- #9Andrew8US #49
- #10Henry8US #17
- #11Charles7US #5
- #12David7US #25
- #13Walter7US #13
- #14Harry6US #21
- #15Louis6US #28
- #16Richard6US #10
- #17Albert5US #19
- #18Arthur5US #18
- #19Donald5US #16
- #20Eugene5US #30
- #21Frank5US #9
- #22Harold5US #12
- #23Lawrence5US #36
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State-level SSA records cover 1910–2024 — a shorter window than the national archive, which runs back to 1880. See 1919 rankings.