Most popular boys’ names in California, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	7,871
2	David	7,382
3	Robert	6,896
4	John	6,033
5	James	5,150
6	Richard	4,871
7	Steven	4,205
8	Mark	4,107
9	William	3,913
10	Thomas	2,772
11	Daniel	2,609
12	Gary	2,545
13	Ronald	2,202
14	Paul	2,131
15	Kenneth	2,050
16	Donald	2,048
17	Charles	1,947
18	Gregory	1,914
19	Jeffrey	1,871
20	Stephen	1,791
21	Timothy	1,764
22	Joseph	1,731
23	Dennis	1,500
24	Larry	1,403
25	Edward	1,371

Rank	Name	Babies
26	George	1,227
27	Bruce	1,207
28	Douglas	1,205
29	Kevin	1,188
30	Scott	1,184
31	Anthony	1,152
32	Randy	1,079
33	Frank	1,008
34	Craig	987
35	Brian	937
36	Patrick	936
37	Christopher	922
38	Raymond	909
39	Terry	820
40	Peter	811
41	Lawrence	791
42	Alan	778
43	Keith	726
44	Jerry	709
45	Arthur	638
46	Danny	626
47	Eric	613
48	Roger	611
49	Dale	598
50	Russell	588
51	Steve	574
52	Jack	573
53	Joe	546
54	Martin	541
55	Gerald	538
56	Wayne	510
57	Rodney	506
58	Andrew	493
58	Jeffery	493
60	Randall	487
61	Carl	485
61	Ralph	485
63	Jose	473
64	Henry	458
65	Glenn	457
65	Phillip	457
67	Rick	454
68	Albert	448
69	Philip	444
70	Victor	425
71	Stanley	424
72	Roy	411
73	Ricky	397
74	Micheal	395
75	Manuel	385
76	Walter	382
77	Mike	380
78	Jon	370
79	Matthew	359
80	Curtis	351
81	Johnny	346
82	Barry	344
83	Gilbert	342
84	Howard	338
85	Ernest	337
86	Vincent	326
87	Harold	322
88	Bradley	321
89	Leonard	320
90	Louis	316
91	Samuel	312
92	Darrell	310
93	Jay	303
94	Ruben	301
95	Eugene	299
96	Allen	294
97	Tony	291
98	Jesse	290
99	Frederick	288
99	Marc	288