Most popular boys’ names in California, 1986
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,262 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,453 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,434 |
| 4 | David | 5,298 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,697 |
| 6 | Andrew | 3,943 |
| 7 | Robert | 3,729 |
| 8 | Ryan | 3,507 |
| 9 | Joshua | 3,418 |
| 10 | Anthony | 3,116 |
| 11 | Jose | 3,073 |
| 12 | James | 3,046 |
| 13 | Joseph | 3,012 |
| 14 | Jonathan | 2,957 |
| 15 | John | 2,848 |
| 16 | Nicholas | 2,655 |
| 17 | Jason | 2,610 |
| 18 | Brandon | 2,521 |
| 19 | Eric | 2,457 |
| 20 | Steven | 2,423 |
| 21 | Kevin | 2,383 |
| 22 | Justin | 2,286 |
| 23 | Brian | 2,281 |
| 24 | Richard | 2,126 |
| 25 | Kyle | 2,074 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 2,018 |
| 27 | Juan | 1,807 |
| 28 | Jeffrey | 1,698 |
| 29 | Sean | 1,685 |
| 30 | Alexander | 1,646 |
| 31 | Thomas | 1,582 |
| 32 | Adam | 1,578 |
| 33 | Timothy | 1,568 |
| 34 | Aaron | 1,440 |
| 35 | Luis | 1,390 |
| 36 | Jeremy | 1,363 |
| 37 | Jacob | 1,328 |
| 38 | Mark | 1,321 |
| 39 | Benjamin | 1,313 |
| 40 | Carlos | 1,273 |
| 41 | Paul | 1,253 |
| 42 | Jesse | 1,213 |
| 43 | Patrick | 1,176 |
| 44 | Scott | 1,157 |
| 45 | Stephen | 1,093 |
| 46 | Bryan | 1,040 |
| 47 | Charles | 1,030 |
| 47 | Miguel | 1,030 |
| 49 | Tyler | 1,024 |
| 50 | Jesus | 1,015 |
| 51 | Gregory | 1,005 |
| 52 | Victor | 1,001 |
| 53 | Jorge | 955 |
| 54 | Kenneth | 926 |
| 55 | Samuel | 913 |
| 56 | Travis | 890 |
| 57 | Nathan | 887 |
| 58 | Zachary | 882 |
| 59 | Francisco | 838 |
| 60 | Edward | 823 |
| 61 | Alejandro | 795 |
| 62 | Christian | 785 |
| 63 | Manuel | 783 |
| 64 | Ricardo | 778 |
| 65 | Gabriel | 766 |
| 66 | Adrian | 765 |
| 67 | Peter | 742 |
| 68 | Mario | 732 |
| 69 | Antonio | 723 |
| 70 | Raymond | 719 |
| 71 | Oscar | 684 |
| 72 | Alex | 680 |
| 73 | Dustin | 676 |
| 74 | Jordan | 660 |
| 75 | Roberto | 626 |
| 76 | Joel | 621 |
| 77 | Derek | 611 |
| 78 | Shawn | 595 |
| 79 | Erik | 593 |
| 80 | George | 585 |
| 81 | Fernando | 571 |
| 82 | Ruben | 569 |
| 83 | Javier | 561 |
| 84 | Jared | 560 |
| 85 | Martin | 555 |
| 86 | Hector | 545 |
| 87 | Frank | 542 |
| 88 | Phillip | 539 |
| 89 | Sergio | 527 |
| 90 | Cody | 525 |
| 91 | Evan | 520 |
| 92 | Bradley | 518 |
| 93 | Chad | 514 |
| 94 | Angel | 503 |
| 95 | Brett | 501 |
| 96 | Ian | 495 |
| 97 | Marcus | 493 |
| 98 | Shane | 487 |
| 99 | Vincent | 484 |
| 100 | Jaime | 478 |