Most popular boys’ names in California, 1970
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 8,198 |
| 2 | David | 6,372 |
| 3 | Robert | 5,664 |
| 4 | John | 5,183 |
| 5 | James | 4,609 |
| 6 | Jason | 4,050 |
| 7 | Christopher | 3,601 |
| 8 | Richard | 3,250 |
| 9 | Eric | 2,817 |
| 10 | Mark | 2,805 |
| 11 | Steven | 2,753 |
| 12 | Brian | 2,663 |
| 13 | William | 2,642 |
| 14 | Daniel | 2,574 |
| 15 | Jeffrey | 2,561 |
| 16 | Scott | 2,465 |
| 17 | Kevin | 2,350 |
| 18 | Joseph | 2,118 |
| 19 | Anthony | 2,105 |
| 20 | Matthew | 2,096 |
| 21 | Paul | 2,027 |
| 22 | Thomas | 1,914 |
| 23 | Timothy | 1,643 |
| 24 | Charles | 1,541 |
| 25 | Gregory | 1,512 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Sean | 1,484 |
| 27 | Kenneth | 1,414 |
| 28 | Jose | 1,364 |
| 29 | Edward | 1,184 |
| 30 | Ronald | 1,183 |
| 31 | Stephen | 1,163 |
| 32 | Andrew | 1,097 |
| 33 | Aaron | 1,064 |
| 34 | Donald | 1,043 |
| 35 | Shawn | 1,038 |
| 36 | Patrick | 1,031 |
| 37 | Todd | 1,025 |
| 38 | Gary | 948 |
| 39 | George | 873 |
| 40 | Frank | 824 |
| 41 | Craig | 820 |
| 42 | Douglas | 809 |
| 43 | Raymond | 800 |
| 44 | Peter | 750 |
| 45 | Juan | 744 |
| 46 | Jonathan | 691 |
| 47 | Carlos | 660 |
| 48 | Bryan | 655 |
| 49 | Dennis | 644 |
| 50 | Troy | 638 |
| 51 | Erik | 637 |
| 52 | Keith | 616 |
| 53 | Jeremy | 584 |
| 54 | Victor | 583 |
| 55 | Larry | 577 |
| 56 | Marc | 546 |
| 57 | Jerry | 542 |
| 58 | Adam | 526 |
| 59 | Chris | 517 |
| 60 | Manuel | 514 |
| 61 | Jeffery | 498 |
| 62 | Joe | 495 |
| 63 | Jon | 490 |
| 64 | Martin | 489 |
| 65 | Joshua | 482 |
| 66 | Derek | 481 |
| 66 | Tony | 481 |
| 68 | Mario | 459 |
| 69 | Vincent | 458 |
| 70 | Darren | 455 |
| 71 | Lance | 450 |
| 72 | Ricardo | 449 |
| 73 | Jesus | 447 |
| 74 | Benjamin | 446 |
| 75 | Luis | 436 |
| 76 | Phillip | 433 |
| 77 | Jesse | 426 |
| 78 | Brandon | 422 |
| 79 | Antonio | 418 |
| 80 | Ruben | 410 |
| 81 | Gabriel | 408 |
| 82 | Steve | 407 |
| 83 | Johnny | 399 |
| 84 | Randy | 396 |
| 85 | Albert | 393 |
| 85 | Samuel | 393 |
| 87 | Chad | 392 |
| 87 | Danny | 392 |
| 89 | Bradley | 391 |
| 90 | Christian | 388 |
| 90 | Marcus | 388 |
| 92 | Brent | 385 |
| 92 | Mike | 385 |
| 94 | Travis | 382 |
| 95 | Joel | 380 |
| 96 | Lawrence | 375 |
| 97 | Jeff | 373 |
| 98 | Russell | 369 |
| 99 | Brett | 367 |
| 100 | Rodney | 366 |