Most popular boys’ names in Ontario, 1982

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,819
2	Christopher	2,363
3	Matthew	1,980
4	David	1,738
5	Jason	1,665
6	Ryan	1,656
7	Andrew	1,389
8	James	1,290
9	Adam	1,257
10	Robert	1,253
11	Daniel	1,178
12	Joseph	1,108
13	John	980
14	Jonathan	903
15	Kevin	861
16	Jeffrey	839
17	Mark	821
18	Justin	798
19	Steven	773
20	Joshua	734
21	William	676
22	Paul	657
23	Scott	624
24	Brian	594
25	Richard	582

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Shawn	541
27	Sean	532
27	Stephen	532
29	Nicholas	528
30	Eric	525
31	Gregory	477
32	Thomas	467
33	Timothy	456
34	Bradley	447
35	Aaron	443
36	Patrick	442
37	Peter	432
38	Derek	416
38	Jeremy	416
40	Tyler	413
41	Brandon	377
42	Jordan	376
42	Kyle	376
44	Ian	353
45	Trevor	349
46	Benjamin	345
47	Anthony	340
48	Jesse	307
49	Nathan	306
50	Alexander	282
51	Craig	264
52	Kenneth	253
53	Bryan	251
54	Marc	236
55	Jeffery	234
56	Brent	232
56	Joel	232
58	Philip	226
59	Shane	222
60	Colin	211
61	Charles	209
62	Jamie	196
63	Chad	193
64	Shaun	191
65	Cory	168
66	Donald	167
67	Neil	161
68	Douglas	158
69	Edward	154
69	Mathew	154
71	Jacob	147
71	Keith	147
73	Darren	142
73	Martin	142
75	Darryl	139
76	Raymond	137
77	George	134
78	Gary	132
78	Travis	132
80	Micheal	131
81	Todd	128
82	Geoffrey	127
83	Curtis	122
84	Ronald	119
85	Brett	118
85	Cameron	118
87	Adrian	117
88	Luke	116
89	Gordon	115
90	Simon	114
91	Andre	112
91	Lee	112
93	Alan	111
93	Lucas	111
95	Kristopher	110
96	Graham	108
97	Dustin	106
98	Allan	105
99	Wayne	103
100	Brendan	102