Most popular boys’ names in California, 1957

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	8,264
2	David	7,470
3	Robert	6,844
4	John	6,315
5	James	5,486
6	Richard	4,859
7	Mark	4,856
8	Steven	3,860
9	William	3,731
10	Thomas	2,811
11	Daniel	2,646
12	Ronald	2,436
13	Gary	2,343
14	Paul	2,257
15	Kenneth	2,233
16	Donald	2,225
17	Charles	2,146
18	Gregory	2,000
19	Timothy	1,897
20	Kevin	1,871
21	Joseph	1,845
22	Jeffrey	1,842
23	Scott	1,724
24	Brian	1,566
25	Anthony	1,542

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	1,507
27	Edward	1,446
28	Larry	1,431
29	Douglas	1,349
30	Dennis	1,328
31	Randy	1,308
32	George	1,178
33	Bruce	1,144
34	Steve	1,139
35	Frank	1,137
36	Christopher	1,062
37	Mike	1,017
38	Patrick	975
39	Raymond	969
40	Peter	936
41	Craig	918
42	Jerry	904
43	Keith	897
44	Eric	841
45	Terry	786
46	Lawrence	764
47	Danny	759
48	Joe	709
49	Alan	699
50	Russell	692
51	Dale	687
52	Rick	675
53	Arthur	644
54	Jeffery	633
55	Martin	623
56	Andrew	612
57	Gerald	598
58	Matthew	590
59	Jack	588
60	Jose	584
61	Ricky	578
62	Roger	572
63	Jim	565
64	Victor	562
65	Wayne	556
66	Phillip	536
67	Ralph	528
68	Rodney	514
69	Carl	513
70	Randall	503
71	Jeff	500
72	Glenn	499
73	Jon	485
73	Tony	485
75	Philip	479
76	Roy	458
77	Albert	445
78	Bill	429
79	Tom	428
80	Henry	427
81	Dan	426
82	Manuel	425
83	Greg	407
84	Johnny	406
85	Curtis	403
86	Micheal	398
87	Don	394
88	Gilbert	392
89	Vincent	389
90	Chris	384
90	Walter	384
92	Dean	382
93	Stanley	374
94	Ernest	365
95	Darrell	360
96	Leonard	358
97	Louis	355
98	Tim	352
99	Jay	349
100	Bradley	344