Most popular boys’ names in California, 1982
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,159 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,064 |
| 3 | David | 5,128 |
| 4 | Daniel | 4,597 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,132 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,660 |
| 7 | Jason | 3,599 |
| 8 | Joshua | 3,224 |
| 9 | James | 3,209 |
| 10 | John | 3,131 |
| 11 | Ryan | 3,109 |
| 12 | Jose | 3,098 |
| 13 | Joseph | 3,057 |
| 14 | Brian | 2,702 |
| 15 | Justin | 2,582 |
| 16 | Anthony | 2,493 |
| 17 | Jonathan | 2,486 |
| 18 | Andrew | 2,333 |
| 19 | Richard | 2,235 |
| 20 | Nicholas | 2,226 |
| 21 | Eric | 2,093 |
| 22 | Steven | 2,087 |
| 23 | William | 1,976 |
| 24 | Brandon | 1,925 |
| 25 | Kevin | 1,840 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Juan | 1,712 |
| 27 | Adam | 1,709 |
| 28 | Jeffrey | 1,635 |
| 29 | Aaron | 1,420 |
| 30 | Thomas | 1,415 |
| 31 | Timothy | 1,406 |
| 32 | Sean | 1,366 |
| 33 | Mark | 1,328 |
| 34 | Paul | 1,326 |
| 35 | Scott | 1,259 |
| 36 | Jesse | 1,256 |
| 37 | Carlos | 1,241 |
| 38 | Jeremy | 1,226 |
| 39 | Benjamin | 1,165 |
| 40 | Luis | 1,096 |
| 41 | Miguel | 1,041 |
| 42 | Jesus | 1,038 |
| 43 | Charles | 1,028 |
| 44 | Jacob | 974 |
| 45 | Patrick | 969 |
| 46 | Gregory | 950 |
| 47 | Bryan | 917 |
| 48 | Kenneth | 906 |
| 49 | Nathan | 897 |
| 50 | Stephen | 857 |
| 51 | Jorge | 842 |
| 52 | Gabriel | 838 |
| 53 | Victor | 829 |
| 54 | Travis | 827 |
| 55 | Ricardo | 783 |
| 56 | Kyle | 780 |
| 57 | Edward | 767 |
| 58 | Alexander | 766 |
| 59 | Manuel | 755 |
| 60 | Samuel | 718 |
| 61 | Mario | 706 |
| 62 | Dustin | 696 |
| 63 | Francisco | 677 |
| 64 | Alejandro | 675 |
| 65 | Peter | 673 |
| 66 | Raymond | 669 |
| 67 | Roberto | 620 |
| 68 | Antonio | 616 |
| 69 | Erik | 608 |
| 70 | Christian | 590 |
| 71 | Frank | 576 |
| 71 | George | 576 |
| 73 | Shawn | 575 |
| 74 | Ronald | 572 |
| 75 | Jared | 569 |
| 76 | Adrian | 562 |
| 77 | Derek | 561 |
| 78 | Joel | 551 |
| 79 | Oscar | 541 |
| 80 | Fernando | 536 |
| 81 | Ruben | 535 |
| 82 | Vincent | 527 |
| 83 | Chad | 521 |
| 84 | Sergio | 519 |
| 85 | Hector | 507 |
| 86 | Ian | 506 |
| 87 | Jaime | 502 |
| 88 | Donald | 490 |
| 89 | Javier | 476 |
| 89 | Phillip | 476 |
| 91 | Keith | 462 |
| 92 | Raul | 446 |
| 93 | Eduardo | 428 |
| 94 | Tyler | 427 |
| 95 | Martin | 415 |
| 96 | Zachary | 413 |
| 97 | Armando | 412 |
| 98 | Cesar | 411 |
| 99 | Salvador | 409 |
| 100 | Jordan | 397 |