Most popular boys’ names in California, 1987
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,453 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,515 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,411 |
| 4 | David | 5,305 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,697 |
| 6 | Andrew | 4,380 |
| 7 | Joshua | 3,764 |
| 8 | Robert | 3,557 |
| 9 | Anthony | 3,435 |
| 10 | Ryan | 3,426 |
| 11 | Jose | 3,312 |
| 12 | Joseph | 3,130 |
| 13 | Jonathan | 3,107 |
| 14 | John | 3,003 |
| 15 | Justin | 2,944 |
| 16 | James | 2,921 |
| 17 | Kevin | 2,736 |
| 18 | Eric | 2,699 |
| 19 | Nicholas | 2,670 |
| 20 | Jason | 2,420 |
| 21 | Brian | 2,414 |
| 22 | Steven | 2,364 |
| 23 | Brandon | 2,288 |
| 24 | Kyle | 2,200 |
| 25 | Richard | 2,128 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 2,069 |
| 27 | Alexander | 1,940 |
| 28 | Juan | 1,780 |
| 29 | Jeffrey | 1,672 |
| 30 | Thomas | 1,651 |
| 31 | Sean | 1,649 |
| 32 | Timothy | 1,601 |
| 33 | Adam | 1,578 |
| 34 | Aaron | 1,490 |
| 35 | Luis | 1,374 |
| 36 | Jacob | 1,346 |
| 37 | Benjamin | 1,333 |
| 38 | Mark | 1,320 |
| 39 | Jeremy | 1,283 |
| 40 | Carlos | 1,274 |
| 41 | Scott | 1,239 |
| 42 | Paul | 1,228 |
| 43 | Jesse | 1,194 |
| 44 | Bryan | 1,170 |
| 45 | Jesus | 1,146 |
| 46 | Samuel | 1,139 |
| 47 | Tyler | 1,133 |
| 48 | Travis | 1,102 |
| 49 | Patrick | 1,078 |
| 50 | Miguel | 1,063 |
| 51 | Stephen | 1,051 |
| 52 | Zachary | 1,035 |
| 53 | Charles | 1,027 |
| 54 | Gregory | 980 |
| 55 | Kenneth | 965 |
| 56 | Victor | 939 |
| 57 | Francisco | 930 |
| 58 | Nathan | 924 |
| 59 | Jorge | 909 |
| 60 | Edward | 885 |
| 61 | Jordan | 848 |
| 62 | Manuel | 837 |
| 63 | Gabriel | 828 |
| 64 | Adrian | 815 |
| 65 | Derek | 801 |
| 66 | Christian | 798 |
| 67 | Alex | 792 |
| 68 | Edgar | 784 |
| 69 | Antonio | 781 |
| 70 | Ricardo | 777 |
| 71 | Mario | 764 |
| 72 | Peter | 748 |
| 73 | Raymond | 718 |
| 74 | Dustin | 711 |
| 75 | Alejandro | 704 |
| 76 | Cody | 700 |
| 77 | Oscar | 694 |
| 78 | Erik | 657 |
| 79 | Sergio | 642 |
| 80 | Joel | 617 |
| 81 | Hector | 616 |
| 82 | Martin | 611 |
| 83 | Vincent | 603 |
| 84 | Ruben | 600 |
| 85 | Frank | 591 |
| 86 | Ian | 583 |
| 86 | Roberto | 583 |
| 88 | Javier | 578 |
| 89 | Jared | 562 |
| 90 | George | 561 |
| 91 | Shane | 556 |
| 92 | Bradley | 547 |
| 93 | Angel | 543 |
| 94 | Chad | 542 |
| 95 | Fernando | 541 |
| 96 | Cameron | 531 |
| 97 | Shawn | 528 |
| 98 | Cory | 527 |
| 99 | Phillip | 512 |
| 100 | Brett | 510 |