Most popular boys’ names in California, 1981
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,151 |
| 2 | Christopher | 5,178 |
| 3 | David | 4,937 |
| 4 | Daniel | 4,334 |
| 5 | Matthew | 3,884 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,734 |
| 7 | Jason | 3,712 |
| 8 | Joshua | 3,383 |
| 9 | John | 3,216 |
| 10 | Jose | 3,198 |
| 11 | Ryan | 3,173 |
| 12 | Joseph | 3,040 |
| 13 | James | 3,018 |
| 14 | Brian | 2,615 |
| 15 | Justin | 2,446 |
| 16 | Anthony | 2,383 |
| 17 | Jonathan | 2,246 |
| 18 | Richard | 2,195 |
| 19 | Eric | 2,118 |
| 20 | Nicholas | 2,055 |
| 21 | Steven | 1,973 |
| 22 | Brandon | 1,919 |
| 23 | Andrew | 1,880 |
| 24 | Juan | 1,857 |
| 25 | William | 1,791 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Jeffrey | 1,696 |
| 27 | Kevin | 1,684 |
| 28 | Adam | 1,624 |
| 29 | Aaron | 1,562 |
| 30 | Jeremy | 1,463 |
| 31 | Timothy | 1,417 |
| 32 | Paul | 1,411 |
| 33 | Thomas | 1,360 |
| 34 | Mark | 1,301 |
| 35 | Sean | 1,285 |
| 36 | Scott | 1,267 |
| 37 | Jesse | 1,250 |
| 38 | Benjamin | 1,236 |
| 39 | Carlos | 1,208 |
| 40 | Charles | 1,074 |
| 41 | Jesus | 1,038 |
| 41 | Luis | 1,038 |
| 43 | Kenneth | 949 |
| 44 | Patrick | 948 |
| 45 | Jacob | 944 |
| 46 | Nathan | 940 |
| 47 | Miguel | 917 |
| 48 | Gregory | 855 |
| 49 | Jorge | 842 |
| 50 | Francisco | 833 |
| 51 | Ricardo | 826 |
| 52 | Gabriel | 822 |
| 53 | Edward | 817 |
| 54 | Bryan | 812 |
| 55 | Stephen | 809 |
| 56 | Dustin | 789 |
| 57 | Manuel | 766 |
| 58 | Victor | 745 |
| 59 | Mario | 733 |
| 60 | Alexander | 717 |
| 61 | Alejandro | 711 |
| 62 | Raymond | 709 |
| 63 | Samuel | 666 |
| 64 | Travis | 651 |
| 65 | Peter | 636 |
| 66 | Antonio | 629 |
| 67 | Erik | 619 |
| 67 | Roberto | 619 |
| 69 | Ronald | 613 |
| 70 | Shawn | 610 |
| 71 | Frank | 603 |
| 72 | Joel | 580 |
| 73 | George | 579 |
| 74 | Kyle | 577 |
| 75 | Jared | 557 |
| 76 | Adrian | 556 |
| 77 | Oscar | 541 |
| 78 | Ruben | 539 |
| 78 | Sergio | 539 |
| 80 | Derek | 537 |
| 81 | Jaime | 536 |
| 82 | Chad | 525 |
| 83 | Raul | 516 |
| 84 | Donald | 514 |
| 85 | Javier | 504 |
| 86 | Fernando | 499 |
| 87 | Hector | 498 |
| 88 | Armando | 497 |
| 89 | Christian | 481 |
| 90 | Keith | 469 |
| 90 | Vincent | 469 |
| 92 | Cesar | 453 |
| 93 | Phillip | 452 |
| 94 | Gary | 439 |
| 95 | Arturo | 410 |
| 96 | Eduardo | 404 |
| 96 | Martin | 404 |
| 96 | Zachary | 404 |
| 99 | Salvador | 402 |
| 100 | Ian | 396 |