Most popular boys’ names in California, 1984
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,479 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,487 |
| 3 | David | 5,116 |
| 4 | Daniel | 5,023 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,675 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,525 |
| 7 | Joshua | 3,406 |
| 8 | Ryan | 3,398 |
| 9 | James | 3,164 |
| 10 | John | 3,082 |
| 11 | Joseph | 3,018 |
| 12 | Jason | 2,984 |
| 13 | Jose | 2,909 |
| 14 | Anthony | 2,846 |
| 15 | Andrew | 2,735 |
| 16 | Brian | 2,718 |
| 17 | Jonathan | 2,609 |
| 18 | Nicholas | 2,451 |
| 19 | Justin | 2,375 |
| 20 | Brandon | 2,351 |
| 21 | Eric | 2,347 |
| 22 | Steven | 2,265 |
| 23 | Richard | 2,146 |
| 24 | Adam | 2,058 |
| 25 | Kevin | 1,968 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 1,960 |
| 27 | Jeffrey | 1,583 |
| 28 | Juan | 1,569 |
| 29 | Timothy | 1,507 |
| 30 | Thomas | 1,502 |
| 31 | Aaron | 1,494 |
| 32 | Sean | 1,477 |
| 33 | Mark | 1,382 |
| 34 | Kyle | 1,359 |
| 35 | Paul | 1,310 |
| 36 | Carlos | 1,215 |
| 37 | Patrick | 1,144 |
| 38 | Scott | 1,135 |
| 39 | Jacob | 1,098 |
| 40 | Benjamin | 1,073 |
| 41 | Luis | 1,070 |
| 42 | Stephen | 1,056 |
| 43 | Jesus | 1,053 |
| 44 | Jesse | 1,043 |
| 45 | Alexander | 1,034 |
| 46 | Gregory | 1,020 |
| 47 | Travis | 1,015 |
| 48 | Miguel | 991 |
| 49 | Jeremy | 986 |
| 50 | Bryan | 950 |
| 51 | Kenneth | 941 |
| 52 | Charles | 934 |
| 53 | Victor | 908 |
| 54 | Nathan | 898 |
| 55 | Gabriel | 857 |
| 56 | Tyler | 829 |
| 57 | Jorge | 805 |
| 58 | Edward | 798 |
| 59 | Ricardo | 792 |
| 60 | Raymond | 734 |
| 61 | Dustin | 725 |
| 62 | Samuel | 723 |
| 63 | Peter | 720 |
| 64 | Francisco | 718 |
| 65 | Zachary | 716 |
| 66 | Manuel | 705 |
| 67 | Adrian | 670 |
| 68 | Joel | 666 |
| 69 | Erik | 664 |
| 70 | Christian | 642 |
| 71 | Antonio | 637 |
| 72 | Derek | 635 |
| 73 | Mario | 631 |
| 74 | Oscar | 598 |
| 75 | Roberto | 587 |
| 76 | Frank | 555 |
| 77 | Alejandro | 551 |
| 78 | Fernando | 548 |
| 78 | Sergio | 548 |
| 80 | Vincent | 537 |
| 81 | Javier | 536 |
| 82 | Jared | 532 |
| 83 | Ian | 527 |
| 84 | Ruben | 526 |
| 85 | Shawn | 524 |
| 86 | Keith | 523 |
| 86 | Ronald | 523 |
| 88 | Marcus | 506 |
| 89 | Chad | 504 |
| 90 | George | 496 |
| 91 | Hector | 483 |
| 92 | Phillip | 481 |
| 93 | Martin | 478 |
| 94 | Donald | 467 |
| 95 | Bradley | 453 |
| 96 | Alex | 452 |
| 97 | Cesar | 445 |
| 98 | Jordan | 443 |
| 99 | Eduardo | 442 |
| 99 | Raul | 442 |