Most popular boys’ names in California, 1950

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,035
2	Michael	5,534
3	John	5,348
4	David	4,851
5	James	4,632
6	Richard	4,234
7	William	3,461
8	Steven	2,858
9	Thomas	2,595
10	Gary	2,568
11	Ronald	1,970
12	Charles	1,943
13	Stephen	1,892
14	Donald	1,782
15	Dennis	1,708
16	Daniel	1,693
17	Larry	1,679
18	Mark	1,584
19	Kenneth	1,578
20	Paul	1,443
21	Gregory	1,357
22	Joseph	1,254
23	George	1,222
24	Edward	1,128
25	Timothy	1,079

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,017
27	Frank	974
28	Douglas	953
29	Raymond	810
30	Patrick	799
31	Lawrence	749
32	Jeffrey	745
33	Jerry	734
34	Christopher	698
35	Anthony	679
36	Gerald	623
37	Terry	620
38	Craig	611
39	Peter	595
40	Arthur	587
41	Alan	586
42	Jack	571
43	Roger	561
44	Danny	555
45	Scott	510
46	Wayne	505
47	Steve	500
48	Joe	481
49	Ralph	462
50	Dale	456
51	Philip	443
52	Albert	423
53	Henry	416
54	Glenn	411
55	Brian	410
56	Carl	403
57	Stanley	396
58	Jose	394
59	Randall	389
60	Phillip	383
61	Harold	379
62	Randy	374
63	Walter	367
64	Manuel	365
65	Roy	361
66	Keith	353
67	Martin	351
68	Mike	350
69	Ernest	348
70	Andrew	341
71	Rodney	336
71	Russell	336
73	Eric	324
74	Leonard	312
75	Fred	304
76	Gilbert	296
77	Barry	286
78	Victor	279
79	Kevin	275
80	Louis	272
81	Johnny	270
82	Allen	268
83	Don	263
83	Howard	263
85	Eugene	255
86	Lee	251
87	Frederick	250
88	Harry	248
89	Bill	247
90	Jim	246
91	Clifford	244
92	Gordon	243
93	Norman	239
94	Ruben	235
95	Alfred	233
96	Jay	230
97	Ray	223
98	Jimmy	222
99	Micheal	217
100	Chris	216