Most popular boys’ names in California, 1980
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 6,905 |
| 2 | David | 5,084 |
| 3 | Christopher | 4,783 |
| 4 | Daniel | 4,148 |
| 5 | Jason | 4,104 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,478 |
| 7 | Matthew | 3,379 |
| 8 | Joshua | 3,138 |
| 9 | John | 3,023 |
| 10 | James | 3,022 |
| 11 | Ryan | 2,991 |
| 12 | Jose | 2,974 |
| 13 | Joseph | 2,825 |
| 14 | Brian | 2,726 |
| 15 | Justin | 2,398 |
| 16 | Eric | 2,314 |
| 17 | Richard | 2,105 |
| 18 | Anthony | 2,100 |
| 19 | Nicholas | 2,087 |
| 20 | Steven | 1,872 |
| 21 | Juan | 1,765 |
| 22 | Andrew | 1,743 |
| 23 | Jonathan | 1,724 |
| 24 | William | 1,715 |
| 25 | Kevin | 1,639 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Jeffrey | 1,575 |
| 27 | Adam | 1,550 |
| 28 | Timothy | 1,451 |
| 29 | Jeremy | 1,446 |
| 30 | Aaron | 1,408 |
| 31 | Mark | 1,356 |
| 32 | Brandon | 1,346 |
| 33 | Scott | 1,328 |
| 34 | Paul | 1,298 |
| 35 | Thomas | 1,267 |
| 36 | Benjamin | 1,206 |
| 37 | Carlos | 1,132 |
| 38 | Charles | 1,063 |
| 39 | Sean | 1,061 |
| 40 | Luis | 1,058 |
| 41 | Jesus | 1,036 |
| 42 | Jesse | 1,004 |
| 43 | Patrick | 902 |
| 44 | Jacob | 901 |
| 45 | Gabriel | 876 |
| 46 | Nathan | 861 |
| 47 | Kenneth | 860 |
| 48 | Gregory | 855 |
| 49 | Jorge | 841 |
| 50 | Stephen | 835 |
| 51 | Bryan | 815 |
| 52 | Erik | 813 |
| 53 | Miguel | 801 |
| 54 | Edward | 796 |
| 55 | Ricardo | 781 |
| 56 | Manuel | 779 |
| 57 | Victor | 768 |
| 58 | Francisco | 723 |
| 59 | Mario | 715 |
| 60 | Raymond | 712 |
| 61 | Dustin | 704 |
| 62 | Peter | 683 |
| 63 | Travis | 676 |
| 64 | Antonio | 662 |
| 65 | Samuel | 656 |
| 66 | George | 614 |
| 66 | Roberto | 614 |
| 68 | Shawn | 601 |
| 69 | Alejandro | 599 |
| 70 | Derek | 591 |
| 71 | Jaime | 585 |
| 72 | Frank | 568 |
| 73 | Alexander | 561 |
| 74 | Ronald | 558 |
| 75 | Ruben | 553 |
| 76 | Joel | 540 |
| 77 | Chad | 538 |
| 78 | Donald | 522 |
| 79 | Jared | 515 |
| 80 | Oscar | 512 |
| 81 | Fernando | 509 |
| 82 | Hector | 503 |
| 83 | Raul | 494 |
| 84 | Phillip | 490 |
| 85 | Javier | 484 |
| 86 | Armando | 471 |
| 87 | Keith | 468 |
| 88 | Adrian | 463 |
| 89 | Eduardo | 459 |
| 90 | Sergio | 453 |
| 91 | Kyle | 441 |
| 92 | Vincent | 430 |
| 93 | Cesar | 420 |
| 94 | Gary | 411 |
| 95 | Ian | 408 |
| 96 | Salvador | 400 |
| 97 | Omar | 392 |
| 98 | Douglas | 391 |
| 99 | Jeremiah | 389 |
| 100 | Rafael | 388 |
| 100 | Zachary | 388 |