Most popular boys’ names in California, 1961

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	David	8,126
2	Michael	7,927
3	John	6,845
4	Robert	6,628
5	Mark	5,516
6	James	5,178
7	Richard	4,012
8	Steven	3,423
9	William	3,151
10	Daniel	2,623
11	Kevin	2,527
12	Thomas	2,405
13	Scott	2,319
14	Jeffrey	2,314
15	Paul	2,234
16	Kenneth	2,159
17	Ronald	2,059
18	Brian	2,053
19	Charles	1,943
20	Gary	1,858
21	Timothy	1,849
22	Gregory	1,834
23	Donald	1,833
24	Joseph	1,831
25	Mike	1,801

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	1,782
27	Christopher	1,678
28	Eric	1,481
29	Steve	1,437
30	Edward	1,286
31	Douglas	1,253
32	Craig	1,227
33	Stephen	1,224
34	Frank	1,177
35	Larry	1,169
36	Jeff	1,152
37	Patrick	1,129
38	George	1,091
39	Dennis	1,082
40	Raymond	1,029
41	Randy	1,021
42	Chris	978
43	Keith	939
44	Peter	923
45	Jerry	883
46	Jim	872
47	Bruce	870
48	Matthew	839
49	Joe	813
50	Todd	803
51	Danny	791
52	Tony	771
53	Andrew	756
54	Roger	709
55	Alan	706
56	Terry	682
57	Russell	677
58	Martin	674
59	Greg	670
60	Tim	654
61	Jose	653
62	Tom	635
63	Jon	631
64	Jeffery	613
65	Phillip	611
66	Lawrence	576
67	Dale	573
68	Victor	568
69	Rick	559
70	Ricky	550
71	Dean	534
72	Randall	527
73	Gerald	525
74	Arthur	522
75	Bill	512
76	Dan	506
77	Glenn	505
78	Bryan	498
79	Troy	494
80	Wayne	477
81	Carl	471
82	Darryl	469
83	Jack	458
83	Vincent	458
85	Manuel	455
86	Rodney	452
87	Curtis	447
88	Albert	441
89	Ralph	440
90	Jay	427
91	Bradley	426
92	Ron	425
93	Don	424
94	Roy	423
95	Philip	417
96	Johnny	416
97	Henry	414
98	Dave	412
99	Jimmy	402
100	Marc	401