Most popular boys’ names in Quebec, 1997

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Samuel	1,515
2	Gabriel	1,065
3	Alexandre	1,040
4	William	940
5	Maxime	895
6	Olivier	797
7	Nicolas	750
8	Mathieu	687
9	Vincent	672
10	David	579
11	Antoine	568
12	Anthony	559
13	Kevin	552
14	Jonathan	541
15	Jeremy	521
16	Guillaume	513
16	Simon	513
18	Michael	506
19	Philippe	499
20	Felix	487
21	Alex	417
22	Francis	395
23	Tommy	384
24	Charles	370
25	Alexis	347

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Etienne	332
27	Raphael	317
28	Benjamin	303
29	Sebastien	300
30	Frederic	292
31	Thomas	286
32	Jacob	279
33	Julien	273
34	Brandon	263
35	Christopher	256
36	Cedric	255
37	Xavier	244
38	Jeremie	243
39	Justin	223
40	Marc Antoine	209
40	Tristan	209
42	Jordan	202
43	Jason	196
44	Patrick	192
45	Matthew	190
46	Hugo	185
46	Steven	185
48	Nicholas	173
49	Keven	171
50	Emile	167
51	Jimmy	152
52	Adam	151
52	Francois	151
54	Daniel	149
55	Frederick	147
56	Louis	139
56	Marc-Antoine	139
58	James	131
59	Christophe	130
60	Dylan	128
61	Jerome	124
62	Dominic	123
63	Andrew	122
64	Yannick	121
65	Eric	117
66	Mikael	116
67	Shawn	114
68	Alexander	112
69	Zachary	111
70	Joel	109
71	Nathan	105
72	Joey	102
73	Jeffrey	101
73	Marc Andre	101
75	Jessy	100
75	Laurent	100
77	Benoit	99
78	Ryan	93
79	Dave	91
80	Cedrick	88
81	Carl	86
82	Joshua	85
83	Jean Philippe	83
83	Mickael	83
83	Pascal	83
86	Marc Olivier	81
87	Christian	79
88	Antony	78
88	Bryan	78
88	Martin	78
88	Miguel	78
92	Karl	77
93	Joseph	76
94	Alec	74
95	Edouard	73
95	Maxim	73
97	Tyler	71
98	Victor	67
99	Lucas	66
99	Thierry	66