Most popular boys’ names in Quebec, 1996

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Samuel	1,632
2	Alexandre	1,347
3	Gabriel	1,246
4	Maxime	1,060
5	Olivier	820
6	Mathieu	816
7	Nicolas	797
8	William	790
9	Vincent	761
10	Jonathan	699
11	Kevin	669
12	Francis	629
13	David	626
14	Simon	613
15	Michael	607
16	Anthony	573
17	Antoine	565
18	Guillaume	546
19	Philippe	544
20	Felix	495
21	Jeremy	462
22	Alex	453
23	Frederic	358
24	Raphael	351
25	Charles	336

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Etienne	324
27	Benjamin	320
28	Sebastien	316
29	Christopher	310
30	Julien	304
31	Alexis	283
32	Jeremie	280
33	Tommy	265
34	Marc Antoine	263
35	Cedric	257
36	Xavier	253
37	Tristan	251
38	Jacob	229
39	Brandon	223
39	Patrick	223
39	Thomas	223
42	Justin	219
43	Keven	212
44	Jordan	210
45	Jason	208
46	Steven	205
47	Francois	187
48	Daniel	186
49	Nicholas	180
50	Frederick	178
51	Jimmy	173
52	Matthew	172
53	Eric	171
54	Hugo	167
55	Marc Andre	163
56	Dominic	162
56	Emile	162
58	Yannick	146
59	Mikael	139
60	Dave	136
61	Jerome	129
61	Joel	129
63	Andrew	128
64	Christophe	126
65	Louis	123
66	Dylan	120
66	Martin	120
66	Nathan	120
69	James	119
70	Alexander	118
70	Jessy	118
72	Jeffrey	113
73	Joey	112
74	Dany	110
75	Adam	106
75	Jean Philippe	106
75	Marc-Antoine	106
78	Laurent	104
79	Benoit	102
79	Pascal	102
81	Marc Olivier	101
82	Miguel	95
83	Shawn	94
84	Karl	91
84	Ryan	91
86	Cedrick	90
87	Zachary	87
88	Christian	86
89	Marc	85
90	Carl	84
91	Emmanuel	83
92	Maxim	82
93	Marc-Andre	81
94	Joseph	78
94	Mickael	78
96	Joshua	77
97	Danny	73
98	Yan	72
99	Jesse	71
100	Lucas	68