Most popular boys’ names in California, 1985
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,215 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,722 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,459 |
| 4 | David | 5,254 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,514 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,698 |
| 7 | Joshua | 3,664 |
| 8 | Ryan | 3,576 |
| 9 | Andrew | 3,415 |
| 10 | James | 3,224 |
| 11 | Anthony | 3,127 |
| 12 | Jose | 3,120 |
| 13 | Joseph | 3,054 |
| 14 | John | 3,026 |
| 15 | Jonathan | 2,935 |
| 16 | Jason | 2,705 |
| 17 | Brandon | 2,701 |
| 18 | Nicholas | 2,635 |
| 19 | Brian | 2,559 |
| 20 | Eric | 2,509 |
| 21 | Steven | 2,487 |
| 22 | Justin | 2,255 |
| 23 | Kevin | 2,230 |
| 24 | Richard | 2,213 |
| 25 | William | 2,052 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Adam | 1,736 |
| 27 | Kyle | 1,718 |
| 28 | Juan | 1,690 |
| 29 | Jeffrey | 1,670 |
| 30 | Sean | 1,582 |
| 31 | Thomas | 1,559 |
| 32 | Timothy | 1,537 |
| 33 | Aaron | 1,437 |
| 34 | Alexander | 1,398 |
| 35 | Mark | 1,366 |
| 36 | Carlos | 1,275 |
| 37 | Paul | 1,248 |
| 38 | Luis | 1,236 |
| 39 | Benjamin | 1,170 |
| 40 | Patrick | 1,167 |
| 41 | Jesus | 1,131 |
| 42 | Scott | 1,100 |
| 43 | Jacob | 1,092 |
| 44 | Jesse | 1,084 |
| 45 | Jeremy | 1,073 |
| 46 | Charles | 1,058 |
| 47 | Stephen | 1,036 |
| 48 | Bryan | 1,034 |
| 49 | Gregory | 1,008 |
| 49 | Miguel | 1,008 |
| 51 | Victor | 1,000 |
| 52 | Tyler | 967 |
| 53 | Kenneth | 963 |
| 54 | Nathan | 941 |
| 55 | Jorge | 939 |
| 56 | Travis | 894 |
| 57 | Francisco | 882 |
| 58 | Samuel | 866 |
| 59 | Zachary | 853 |
| 60 | Edward | 804 |
| 61 | Gabriel | 803 |
| 62 | Manuel | 798 |
| 63 | Ricardo | 763 |
| 64 | Peter | 762 |
| 65 | Adrian | 746 |
| 66 | Dustin | 738 |
| 67 | Antonio | 727 |
| 68 | Oscar | 702 |
| 69 | Mario | 698 |
| 70 | Raymond | 675 |
| 71 | Christian | 656 |
| 72 | Alejandro | 648 |
| 73 | Joel | 635 |
| 74 | Alex | 618 |
| 75 | Shawn | 610 |
| 76 | Erik | 604 |
| 77 | Hector | 589 |
| 78 | Roberto | 585 |
| 79 | Derek | 577 |
| 80 | Cody | 575 |
| 80 | Sergio | 575 |
| 82 | Jared | 563 |
| 83 | Frank | 558 |
| 84 | Ruben | 554 |
| 85 | Ian | 540 |
| 86 | Fernando | 538 |
| 87 | Jordan | 537 |
| 88 | Marcus | 530 |
| 89 | Javier | 525 |
| 90 | George | 520 |
| 91 | Vincent | 515 |
| 92 | Phillip | 512 |
| 93 | Chad | 506 |
| 94 | Bradley | 488 |
| 95 | Keith | 487 |
| 96 | Ronald | 476 |
| 97 | Eduardo | 464 |
| 98 | Cesar | 463 |
| 99 | Martin | 460 |
| 100 | Raul | 450 |