Most popular boys’ names in Ontario, 1980

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,846
2	Christopher	2,113
3	Jason	1,914
4	David	1,883
5	Ryan	1,514
6	Matthew	1,470
7	Robert	1,317
8	Andrew	1,154
9	James	1,123
10	Adam	1,117
11	Daniel	1,105
12	Joseph	1,089
13	John	1,052
14	Kevin	961
15	Mark	907
16	Jeffrey	880
17	Paul	742
18	Justin	741
19	Jonathan	722
20	Steven	697
21	Scott	674
22	William	671
23	Brian	643
24	Richard	608
25	Bradley	543

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Timothy	539
27	Nicholas	518
28	Jeremy	517
29	Sean	505
30	Joshua	502
31	Eric	498
32	Derek	495
33	Shawn	483
33	Stephen	483
35	Gregory	446
36	Peter	431
37	Thomas	422
38	Ian	391
39	Aaron	390
40	Patrick	389
41	Trevor	368
42	Anthony	345
43	Benjamin	319
44	Nathan	310
45	Craig	299
46	Kenneth	277
47	Jamie	272
48	Bryan	267
49	Shane	258
50	Marc	250
51	Jesse	249
52	Chad	248
53	Shaun	240
54	Jeffery	239
55	Tyler	233
56	Alexander	227
56	Charles	227
58	Brandon	225
59	Darryl	223
59	Philip	223
61	Joel	220
62	Kyle	214
63	Cory	210
64	Douglas	203
65	George	197
66	Colin	190
67	Darren	188
68	Brent	182
69	Travis	178
70	Jordan	172
71	Donald	170
72	Neil	169
73	Martin	168
74	Edward	154
75	Ronald	144
76	Geoffrey	143
77	Keith	142
77	Lee	142
79	Curtis	138
80	Gary	137
81	Todd	133
82	Lucas	132
83	Wesley	131
84	Kristopher	123
85	Cameron	122
85	Raymond	122
87	Luke	121
88	Micheal	118
89	Adrian	116
90	Christian	114
91	Troy	113
92	Andre	111
93	Alan	109
93	Dennis	109
95	Gordon	108
95	Wayne	108
97	Mathew	107
98	Corey	106
99	Simon	104
100	Brendan	102