Most popular boys’ names in California, 1951

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	6,192
2	Robert	6,167
3	John	5,581
4	David	4,943
5	James	4,758
6	Richard	4,510
7	William	3,712
8	Steven	3,323
9	Gary	2,956
10	Thomas	2,751
11	Mark	2,038
12	Ronald	2,025
13	Charles	2,005
14	Stephen	1,892
15	Daniel	1,818
16	Donald	1,810
17	Dennis	1,712
18	Kenneth	1,703
19	Larry	1,652
20	Paul	1,624
21	Gregory	1,367
22	Joseph	1,300
23	Edward	1,216
24	Timothy	1,169
25	George	1,161

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,159
27	Douglas	1,034
28	Frank	966
29	Jeffrey	920
30	Patrick	827
31	Christopher	811
32	Anthony	791
33	Raymond	768
34	Lawrence	765
35	Jerry	740
36	Craig	703
37	Peter	695
38	Alan	658
39	Terry	654
40	Roger	644
41	Jack	586
42	Scott	570
43	Arthur	569
44	Gerald	555
45	Brian	530
46	Randy	519
46	Wayne	519
48	Danny	500
49	Joe	496
50	Dale	495
51	Stanley	483
52	Randall	473
53	Steve	469
54	Ralph	449
55	Henry	444
56	Philip	436
57	Glenn	435
58	Phillip	420
59	Eric	411
60	Keith	410
61	Albert	404
62	Martin	401
63	Kevin	390
64	Russell	387
65	Rodney	384
66	Walter	378
67	Manuel	377
68	Jose	374
69	Carl	360
70	Roy	356
71	Leonard	352
72	Andrew	348
73	Fred	339
73	Harold	339
75	Gilbert	328
76	Mike	326
77	Barry	317
78	Allen	316
79	Ernest	314
80	Victor	312
81	Louis	311
82	Eugene	299
83	Howard	294
84	Frederick	291
85	Norman	282
86	Johnny	277
87	Alfred	267
88	Lee	260
89	Samuel	255
90	Don	251
90	Harry	251
92	Clifford	247
93	Dean	245
94	Gordon	243
95	Rick	240
96	Ruben	239
97	Jesse	238
98	Micheal	236
99	Carlos	229
100	Dan	226
100	Jimmy	226