Most popular boys’ names in California, 1988
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,761 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,465 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,406 |
| 4 | David | 5,157 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,855 |
| 6 | Andrew | 4,561 |
| 7 | Joshua | 3,943 |
| 8 | Robert | 3,640 |
| 9 | Anthony | 3,599 |
| 10 | Jose | 3,546 |
| 11 | Jonathan | 3,532 |
| 12 | Ryan | 3,388 |
| 13 | Justin | 3,287 |
| 14 | Joseph | 3,267 |
| 15 | James | 3,102 |
| 16 | Nicholas | 3,076 |
| 17 | John | 2,951 |
| 18 | Kevin | 2,870 |
| 19 | Eric | 2,656 |
| 20 | Brian | 2,578 |
| 21 | Steven | 2,476 |
| 22 | Brandon | 2,349 |
| 23 | Alexander | 2,265 |
| 24 | Kyle | 2,224 |
| 25 | Richard | 2,139 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 2,065 |
| 27 | Jason | 1,996 |
| 28 | Juan | 1,905 |
| 29 | Thomas | 1,792 |
| 30 | Aaron | 1,672 |
| 31 | Sean | 1,620 |
| 32 | Timothy | 1,609 |
| 33 | Jeffrey | 1,584 |
| 34 | Adam | 1,582 |
| 35 | Luis | 1,563 |
| 36 | Jacob | 1,551 |
| 37 | Mark | 1,360 |
| 38 | Carlos | 1,339 |
| 39 | Jesse | 1,308 |
| 40 | Tyler | 1,307 |
| 41 | Benjamin | 1,283 |
| 42 | Jesus | 1,272 |
| 43 | Paul | 1,258 |
| 44 | Jeremy | 1,240 |
| 45 | Zachary | 1,237 |
| 46 | Samuel | 1,222 |
| 47 | Scott | 1,204 |
| 48 | Patrick | 1,140 |
| 49 | Bryan | 1,126 |
| 50 | Miguel | 1,124 |
| 51 | Travis | 1,123 |
| 52 | Victor | 1,120 |
| 53 | Charles | 1,057 |
| 54 | Stephen | 1,052 |
| 55 | Jorge | 1,018 |
| 56 | Francisco | 983 |
| 57 | Kenneth | 978 |
| 58 | Ricardo | 966 |
| 59 | Nathan | 961 |
| 60 | Christian | 953 |
| 61 | Edward | 924 |
| 62 | Gregory | 908 |
| 63 | Adrian | 906 |
| 64 | Gabriel | 892 |
| 65 | Alex | 886 |
| 66 | Cody | 858 |
| 67 | Jordan | 831 |
| 68 | Mario | 829 |
| 69 | Manuel | 825 |
| 70 | Antonio | 810 |
| 71 | Edgar | 802 |
| 72 | Derek | 781 |
| 73 | Cameron | 774 |
| 73 | Raymond | 774 |
| 75 | Erik | 756 |
| 75 | Vincent | 756 |
| 77 | Peter | 750 |
| 78 | Alejandro | 746 |
| 79 | Oscar | 736 |
| 80 | Martin | 722 |
| 81 | George | 695 |
| 82 | Sergio | 686 |
| 83 | Eduardo | 680 |
| 84 | Dustin | 665 |
| 85 | Hector | 645 |
| 86 | Jared | 633 |
| 87 | Austin | 631 |
| 88 | Ian | 628 |
| 89 | Ruben | 627 |
| 90 | Joel | 625 |
| 91 | Javier | 624 |
| 92 | Shane | 616 |
| 93 | Angel | 609 |
| 94 | Trevor | 598 |
| 95 | Fernando | 591 |
| 96 | Frank | 590 |
| 97 | Roberto | 573 |
| 98 | Evan | 570 |
| 99 | Chad | 567 |
| 99 | Cory | 567 |