Most popular boys’ names in California, 1989
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 7,858 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,488 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,609 |
| 4 | David | 5,354 |
| 5 | Matthew | 4,744 |
| 6 | Andrew | 4,414 |
| 7 | Joshua | 4,289 |
| 8 | Jose | 4,179 |
| 9 | Anthony | 3,778 |
| 10 | Robert | 3,732 |
| 11 | Jonathan | 3,681 |
| 12 | Ryan | 3,563 |
| 13 | Joseph | 3,427 |
| 14 | Nicholas | 3,278 |
| 15 | Kevin | 3,157 |
| 16 | James | 3,100 |
| 17 | Justin | 3,043 |
| 18 | John | 2,974 |
| 19 | Eric | 2,669 |
| 20 | Steven | 2,519 |
| 21 | Kyle | 2,414 |
| 22 | Alexander | 2,318 |
| 23 | Brian | 2,315 |
| 24 | Richard | 2,258 |
| 25 | Brandon | 2,223 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 2,207 |
| 27 | Juan | 2,115 |
| 28 | Aaron | 1,814 |
| 29 | Thomas | 1,762 |
| 30 | Luis | 1,737 |
| 31 | Jacob | 1,725 |
| 32 | Jason | 1,697 |
| 33 | Sean | 1,644 |
| 34 | Adam | 1,641 |
| 35 | Timothy | 1,568 |
| 36 | Jeffrey | 1,565 |
| 37 | Carlos | 1,562 |
| 38 | Tyler | 1,516 |
| 39 | Jesus | 1,442 |
| 40 | Benjamin | 1,434 |
| 41 | Zachary | 1,411 |
| 42 | Jesse | 1,393 |
| 43 | Mark | 1,385 |
| 44 | Miguel | 1,265 |
| 45 | Samuel | 1,263 |
| 46 | Jeremy | 1,257 |
| 47 | Victor | 1,256 |
| 48 | Paul | 1,210 |
| 49 | Travis | 1,208 |
| 50 | Christian | 1,207 |
| 51 | Francisco | 1,195 |
| 52 | Patrick | 1,190 |
| 53 | Jorge | 1,166 |
| 54 | Bryan | 1,163 |
| 55 | Scott | 1,154 |
| 56 | Jordan | 1,134 |
| 57 | Edgar | 1,100 |
| 58 | Charles | 1,095 |
| 59 | Stephen | 1,089 |
| 60 | Ricardo | 1,068 |
| 61 | Nathan | 994 |
| 62 | Alejandro | 992 |
| 63 | Kenneth | 981 |
| 64 | Adrian | 966 |
| 65 | Eduardo | 926 |
| 66 | Edward | 919 |
| 67 | Cameron | 915 |
| 68 | Alex | 914 |
| 68 | Antonio | 914 |
| 70 | Gregory | 908 |
| 70 | Oscar | 908 |
| 72 | Cody | 904 |
| 72 | Manuel | 904 |
| 74 | Gabriel | 855 |
| 75 | Mario | 846 |
| 76 | Erik | 827 |
| 77 | Vincent | 818 |
| 78 | Derek | 809 |
| 79 | Martin | 775 |
| 79 | Roberto | 775 |
| 79 | Sergio | 775 |
| 82 | Peter | 773 |
| 83 | Fernando | 752 |
| 84 | Hector | 751 |
| 85 | Javier | 741 |
| 85 | Raymond | 741 |
| 87 | Angel | 736 |
| 88 | Ian | 707 |
| 89 | Austin | 694 |
| 90 | George | 685 |
| 91 | Cesar | 665 |
| 92 | Taylor | 664 |
| 93 | Dustin | 656 |
| 94 | Trevor | 652 |
| 95 | Evan | 635 |
| 96 | Jared | 633 |
| 97 | Joel | 628 |
| 98 | Ivan | 623 |
| 98 | Ruben | 623 |
| 100 | Corey | 604 |