Most popular boys’ names in New South Wales, 1972

The top 100 as published, with the number of babies given each name.

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Jason	2,304
2	David	1,846
3	Michael	1,679
4	Matthew	1,415
5	Andrew	1,353
6	Paul	1,283
7	Mark	1,164
8	Peter	1,094
9	Christopher	1,058
10	Scott	955
11	Robert	929
12	John	891
13	Adam	864
14	Craig	855
15	Anthony	826
16	Shane	805
17	Darren	698
18	Stephen	654
19	Steven	627
20	Daniel	621
21	James	597
22	Brett	579
23	Gregory	517
24	Richard	516
25	Bradley	510

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Simon	485
27	Troy	426
28	Jamie	404
29	Justin	402
30	Timothy	385
31	Wayne	315
32	Benjamin	311
33	Glenn	311
34	Rodney	307
35	Stuart	291
36	Dean	289
37	Ian	278
38	Aaron	260
39	Phillip	260
40	Sean	255
41	William	253
42	Nicholas	250
43	Grant	244
44	Nathan	243
45	Glen	242
46	George	237
47	Gavin	227
48	Martin	213
49	Mathew	213
50	Geoffrey	205
51	Adrian	200
52	Kevin	194
53	Jeffrey	189
54	Gary	188
55	Damien	180
56	Brian	174
57	Joseph	172
58	Luke	172
59	Todd	169
60	Brendan	162
61	Cameron	161
62	Tony	157
63	Colin	151
64	Philip	149
65	Graham	145
66	Joshua	142
67	Thomas	137
68	Jeremy	136
69	Nigel	134
70	Alexander	133
71	Patrick	133
72	Warren	132
73	Damian	128
74	Raymond	126
75	Trevor	121
76	Alan	117
77	Christian	114
78	Allan	113
79	Edward	112
80	Jonathan	110
81	Kenneth	100
82	Neil	100
83	Garry	95
84	Marcus	93
85	Russell	93
86	Shaun	93
87	Ashley	92
88	Ronald	92
89	Dale	91
90	Terry	90
91	Trent	90
92	Malcolm	88
93	Samuel	82
94	Shayne	82
95	Bruce	80
96	Graeme	79
97	Charles	78
98	Douglas	75
99	Ross	74
100	Barry	73