Most popular boys’ names in Ontario, 1976

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,828
2	Jason	2,341
3	Christopher	2,051
4	David	1,820
5	Robert	1,543
6	James	1,356
7	Joseph	1,324
8	John	1,100
9	Mark	1,070
10	Kevin	1,003
11	Daniel	1,001
12	Matthew	965
13	Ryan	942
14	Andrew	928
15	Jeffrey	898
16	Paul	885
17	Steven	861
18	Scott	783
19	Richard	739
20	William	701
21	Shawn	639
22	Brian	615
23	Stephen	603
24	Jeremy	601
25	Timothy	536

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Peter	535
27	Gregory	527
28	Sean	521
29	Adam	480
30	Jonathan	427
31	Bradley	416
32	Thomas	413
33	Derek	397
34	Aaron	387
35	Eric	381
36	Jamie	380
37	Patrick	357
38	Anthony	343
39	Ian	342
40	Trevor	332
41	Kenneth	323
42	Jeffery	318
43	Chad	309
44	Craig	294
45	Benjamin	287
46	Marc	282
47	Shane	264
48	Darren	261
49	George	241
50	Charles	238
51	Edward	236
52	Donald	230
53	Joshua	225
54	Todd	218
55	Darryl	213
55	Justin	213
57	Bryan	211
57	Ronald	211
59	Colin	208
60	Alexander	206
61	Douglas	205
62	Martin	197
62	Philip	197
64	Brent	193
65	Nathan	190
66	Gary	185
67	Neil	178
68	Keith	177
69	Dennis	165
70	Kyle	162
71	Raymond	161
72	Joel	159
73	Cory	152
73	Micheal	152
75	Geoffrey	146
76	Corey	145
76	Danny	145
76	Wayne	145
79	Brandon	131
80	Baby	129
80	Troy	129
82	Steve	127
83	Nicholas	126
84	Gordon	120
84	Terry	120
86	Adrian	118
86	Antonio	118
88	Dwayne	116
88	Tyler	116
90	Marco	114
91	Michel	110
92	Dean	109
92	Randy	109
94	Alan	108
95	Jesse	105
96	Brett	102
96	Roger	102
98	Christian	101
99	Giuseppe	100
100	Cameron	99