State roster
Top names in Alaska
The names most likely to appear on 1939 Alaska birth certificates, ranked by SSA state records. The SSA recorded 612 Alaska births in 1939 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.
- #24Nataliaoutside the national top 200
- #33Mosesoutside the national top 200
- #21Emily#163 nationally
- #20Elsie#140 nationally
- #34Steven#144 nationally
- #26Bertha#135 nationally
- #28Grace#108 nationally
- #22Lorraine#95 nationally
- #34Pauline#105 nationally
- #18Josephine#84 nationally
- #29Andrew#84 nationally
- #25Jim#75 nationally
Girls
- #1Mary28US #1
- #2Elizabeth18US #18
- #3Martha13US #27
- #4Alice11US #31
- #5Carol10US #6
- #6Helen10US #16
- #7Jean10US #32
- #8Ruth10US #22
- #9Virginia10US #21
- #10Patricia9US #3
- #11Barbara8US #2
- #12Karen8US #39
- #13Margaret8US #10
- #14Phyllis8US #30
- #15Anna7US #43
- #16Dorothy7US #9
- #17Frances7US #26
- #18Josephine7US #84
- #19Sally7US #52
- #20Elsie6US #140
- #21Emily6US #163
- #22Lorraine6US #95
- #23Marilyn6US #19
- #24Natalia6
- #25Sarah6US #68
- #26Bertha5US #135
- #27Betty5US #4
- #28Grace5US #108
- #29Irene5US #74
- #30Janet5US #17
- #31Judith5US #8
- #32Marjorie5US #60
- #33Nancy5US #7
- #34Pauline5US #105
Boys
- #1John35US #3
- #2William25US #4
- #3George21US #11
- #4David19US #7
- #5James18US #2
- #6Richard16US #5
- #7Robert12US #1
- #8Michael11US #18
- #9Peter11US #46
- #10Arthur10US #32
- #11Paul10US #17
- #12Thomas10US #9
- #13Edward9US #15
- #14Clarence8US #60
- #15Ronald8US #10
- #16Daniel7US #38
- #17Donald7US #8
- #18Jack7US #26
- #19Kenneth7US #13
- #20Raymond7US #22
- #21Alfred6US #70
- #22Charles6US #6
- #23Frank6US #20
- #24Harold6US #23
- #25Jim6US #75
- #26Norman6US #44
- #27Walter6US #25
- #28Albert5US #41
- #29Andrew5US #84
- #30Gerald5US #19
- #31Henry5US #31
- #32Howard5US #47
- #33Moses5
- #34Steven5US #144
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State-level SSA records cover 1910–2024 — a shorter window than the national archive, which runs back to 1880. See 1938 rankings.