Most popular boys’ names in California, 1979
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 6,587 |
| 2 | David | 4,876 |
| 3 | Christopher | 4,716 |
| 4 | Jason | 4,065 |
| 5 | Daniel | 3,554 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,458 |
| 7 | John | 3,019 |
| 8 | Matthew | 3,009 |
| 9 | James | 2,978 |
| 10 | Ryan | 2,899 |
| 11 | Joshua | 2,895 |
| 12 | Jose | 2,681 |
| 13 | Brian | 2,662 |
| 14 | Joseph | 2,618 |
| 15 | Eric | 2,080 |
| 15 | Nicholas | 2,080 |
| 17 | Anthony | 2,074 |
| 18 | Richard | 2,059 |
| 19 | Steven | 1,838 |
| 20 | William | 1,699 |
| 21 | Kevin | 1,689 |
| 22 | Jeffrey | 1,630 |
| 23 | Juan | 1,602 |
| 24 | Justin | 1,578 |
| 25 | Andrew | 1,552 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Adam | 1,444 |
| 27 | Jeremy | 1,433 |
| 28 | Aaron | 1,417 |
| 29 | Timothy | 1,409 |
| 30 | Scott | 1,325 |
| 31 | Jonathan | 1,293 |
| 32 | Mark | 1,279 |
| 33 | Paul | 1,271 |
| 34 | Thomas | 1,237 |
| 35 | Brandon | 1,150 |
| 36 | Benjamin | 1,120 |
| 37 | Carlos | 1,102 |
| 38 | Charles | 1,008 |
| 39 | Sean | 949 |
| 40 | Jesus | 945 |
| 41 | Nathan | 936 |
| 42 | Jesse | 879 |
| 43 | Jorge | 857 |
| 44 | Patrick | 854 |
| 45 | Gregory | 826 |
| 46 | Kenneth | 824 |
| 47 | Edward | 814 |
| 48 | Gabriel | 813 |
| 49 | Stephen | 802 |
| 50 | Luis | 797 |
| 51 | Jacob | 779 |
| 52 | Erik | 763 |
| 53 | Bryan | 755 |
| 54 | Manuel | 743 |
| 55 | Victor | 707 |
| 56 | Miguel | 694 |
| 57 | Francisco | 684 |
| 58 | Ricardo | 678 |
| 59 | Mario | 665 |
| 60 | Peter | 658 |
| 61 | Raymond | 638 |
| 62 | Travis | 635 |
| 63 | Samuel | 628 |
| 64 | Antonio | 609 |
| 65 | Alejandro | 591 |
| 66 | Shawn | 583 |
| 67 | Chad | 579 |
| 68 | Roberto | 566 |
| 69 | George | 535 |
| 70 | Frank | 534 |
| 71 | Jaime | 526 |
| 72 | Oscar | 525 |
| 73 | Ruben | 507 |
| 74 | Ronald | 501 |
| 75 | Donald | 500 |
| 76 | Hector | 489 |
| 76 | Joel | 489 |
| 78 | Alexander | 472 |
| 79 | Fernando | 466 |
| 80 | Dustin | 456 |
| 80 | Phillip | 456 |
| 82 | Shaun | 453 |
| 83 | Jared | 451 |
| 84 | Kyle | 435 |
| 85 | Adrian | 433 |
| 86 | Keith | 430 |
| 87 | Javier | 428 |
| 88 | Gary | 424 |
| 88 | Raul | 424 |
| 90 | Armando | 422 |
| 91 | Eduardo | 406 |
| 92 | Zachary | 403 |
| 93 | Jeremiah | 393 |
| 94 | Douglas | 385 |
| 95 | Sergio | 379 |
| 96 | Cesar | 378 |
| 96 | Vincent | 378 |
| 98 | Shane | 372 |
| 99 | Dennis | 358 |
| 99 | Ian | 358 |