State roster
Top names in Alaska
The names most likely to appear on 1936 Alaska birth certificates, ranked by SSA state records. The SSA recorded 625 Alaska births in 1936 across 68 distinct names.
Distinctively Alaska
Names that rank far higher here than they do nationally — the ones that say Alaska more than they say America.
- #21Nickoutside the national top 200
- #23Noraoutside the national top 200
- #26Ameliaoutside the national top 200
- #29Alexieoutside the national top 200
- #32Lydiaoutside the national top 200
- #32Jacoboutside the national top 200
- #6Agnes#139 nationally
- #21Lucy#147 nationally
- #17Nellie#135 nationally
- #27Christine#131 nationally
- #29Elsie#123 nationally
- #15Katherine#100 nationally
Girls
- #1Mary34US #1
- #2Elizabeth15US #18
- #3Anna11US #36
- #4Dorothy11US #6
- #5Patricia11US #5
- #6Agnes10US #139
- #7Alice10US #27
- #8Carol9US #10
- #9Margaret9US #9
- #10Nancy9US #8
- #11Shirley9US #2
- #12Virginia9US #14
- #13Evelyn8US #34
- #14Joan8US #7
- #15Katherine7US #100
- #16Marjorie7US #49
- #17Nellie7US #135
- #18Helen6US #11
- #19Jacqueline6US #66
- #20Julia6US #105
- #21Lucy6US #147
- #22Martha6US #24
- #23Nora6
- #24Ruth6US #16
- #25Theresa6US #88
- #26Amelia5
- #27Christine5US #131
- #28Dolores5US #30
- #29Elsie5US #123
- #30Esther5US #107
- #31Geraldine5US #41
- #32Lydia5
- #33Marie5US #33
Boys
- #1Robert35US #1
- #2John32US #3
- #3James19US #2
- #4George15US #9
- #5Richard15US #5
- #6Donald14US #7
- #7William14US #4
- #8David13US #10
- #9Thomas13US #8
- #10Frank11US #16
- #11Henry11US #28
- #12Paul11US #15
- #13Charles10US #6
- #14Daniel10US #41
- #15Albert9US #34
- #16Jerry8US #18
- #17Billy7US #22
- #18Joseph7US #11
- #19Kenneth7US #14
- #20Lawrence7US #37
- #21Nick7
- #22Ralph7US #31
- #23Carl6US #27
- #24Edward6US #13
- #25Fred6US #36
- #26Harry6US #39
- #27Joe6US #23
- #28Ray6US #65
- #29Alexie5
- #30Gerald5US #19
- #31Herbert5US #62
- #32Jacob5
- #33Peter5US #56
- #34Raymond5US #17
- #35Ronald5US #12
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State-level SSA records cover 1910–2024 — a shorter window than the national archive, which runs back to 1880. See 1935 rankings.