Most popular boys’ names in California, 1983
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,398 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,351 |
| 3 | David | 5,001 |
| 4 | Daniel | 4,750 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,697 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,578 |
| 7 | Jason | 3,372 |
| 8 | Ryan | 3,349 |
| 9 | Joshua | 3,280 |
| 10 | Joseph | 3,097 |
| 11 | James | 3,066 |
| 12 | John | 3,026 |
| 13 | Jose | 2,838 |
| 14 | Brian | 2,655 |
| 15 | Andrew | 2,598 |
| 16 | Anthony | 2,485 |
| 17 | Jonathan | 2,463 |
| 18 | Justin | 2,427 |
| 19 | Eric | 2,312 |
| 20 | Nicholas | 2,282 |
| 21 | Steven | 2,253 |
| 22 | Richard | 2,186 |
| 23 | Brandon | 2,171 |
| 24 | William | 2,062 |
| 25 | Kevin | 1,926 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Adam | 1,924 |
| 27 | Jeffrey | 1,641 |
| 28 | Juan | 1,632 |
| 29 | Aaron | 1,485 |
| 30 | Sean | 1,405 |
| 31 | Thomas | 1,402 |
| 32 | Timothy | 1,366 |
| 33 | Mark | 1,362 |
| 34 | Paul | 1,351 |
| 35 | Kyle | 1,228 |
| 36 | Benjamin | 1,206 |
| 37 | Scott | 1,174 |
| 38 | Jeremy | 1,148 |
| 39 | Jesse | 1,144 |
| 40 | Carlos | 1,103 |
| 41 | Travis | 1,098 |
| 42 | Jacob | 1,067 |
| 43 | Patrick | 1,061 |
| 44 | Luis | 1,039 |
| 45 | Stephen | 999 |
| 46 | Charles | 985 |
| 47 | Jesus | 976 |
| 48 | Gregory | 951 |
| 49 | Bryan | 949 |
| 50 | Kenneth | 928 |
| 51 | Miguel | 906 |
| 52 | Nathan | 867 |
| 53 | Gabriel | 819 |
| 54 | Victor | 817 |
| 55 | Alexander | 773 |
| 56 | Manuel | 756 |
| 56 | Ricardo | 756 |
| 58 | Edward | 746 |
| 58 | Jorge | 746 |
| 60 | Dustin | 742 |
| 60 | Francisco | 742 |
| 62 | Peter | 690 |
| 63 | Samuel | 684 |
| 64 | Alejandro | 671 |
| 65 | Mario | 666 |
| 66 | Raymond | 659 |
| 67 | Erik | 636 |
| 68 | Derek | 610 |
| 69 | Antonio | 604 |
| 70 | Adrian | 591 |
| 71 | Joel | 578 |
| 72 | Ruben | 577 |
| 73 | Christian | 573 |
| 74 | Tyler | 565 |
| 75 | Roberto | 564 |
| 76 | Oscar | 557 |
| 77 | Ian | 555 |
| 78 | Frank | 554 |
| 78 | Zachary | 554 |
| 80 | Jared | 545 |
| 81 | Javier | 533 |
| 82 | George | 532 |
| 83 | Ronald | 514 |
| 84 | Sergio | 512 |
| 85 | Fernando | 509 |
| 86 | Vincent | 506 |
| 87 | Donald | 500 |
| 88 | Marcus | 497 |
| 89 | Jaime | 490 |
| 90 | Hector | 484 |
| 91 | Shawn | 481 |
| 92 | Phillip | 468 |
| 93 | Raul | 460 |
| 94 | Chad | 458 |
| 95 | Martin | 455 |
| 96 | Jordan | 442 |
| 97 | Evan | 441 |
| 98 | Keith | 436 |
| 99 | Armando | 424 |
| 100 | Eduardo | 413 |