Most popular boys’ names in California, 1990
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 8,248 |
| 2 | Christopher | 6,622 |
| 3 | Daniel | 5,771 |
| 4 | David | 5,350 |
| 5 | Jose | 4,914 |
| 6 | Matthew | 4,885 |
| 7 | Andrew | 4,548 |
| 8 | Joshua | 4,301 |
| 9 | Jonathan | 4,118 |
| 10 | Anthony | 4,022 |
| 11 | Ryan | 3,630 |
| 12 | Robert | 3,591 |
| 13 | Joseph | 3,580 |
| 14 | Nicholas | 3,468 |
| 15 | Kevin | 3,315 |
| 16 | James | 3,114 |
| 17 | Justin | 3,034 |
| 18 | Eric | 2,979 |
| 19 | John | 2,895 |
| 20 | Juan | 2,738 |
| 21 | Steven | 2,661 |
| 22 | Kyle | 2,648 |
| 23 | Alexander | 2,567 |
| 24 | Brian | 2,339 |
| 25 | Luis | 2,291 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | William | 2,208 |
| 27 | Brandon | 2,169 |
| 28 | Jacob | 2,116 |
| 29 | Richard | 2,078 |
| 30 | Tyler | 2,004 |
| 31 | Carlos | 1,966 |
| 32 | Jesus | 1,885 |
| 33 | Thomas | 1,805 |
| 34 | Christian | 1,803 |
| 35 | Aaron | 1,784 |
| 36 | Sean | 1,737 |
| 37 | Jordan | 1,687 |
| 38 | Zachary | 1,629 |
| 39 | Miguel | 1,601 |
| 40 | Victor | 1,600 |
| 41 | Jason | 1,557 |
| 42 | Adam | 1,550 |
| 43 | Timothy | 1,549 |
| 44 | Cody | 1,492 |
| 45 | Jesse | 1,468 |
| 46 | Jeffrey | 1,441 |
| 47 | Francisco | 1,412 |
| 48 | Benjamin | 1,383 |
| 49 | Samuel | 1,378 |
| 50 | Jorge | 1,329 |
| 51 | Alejandro | 1,280 |
| 52 | Mark | 1,261 |
| 53 | Bryan | 1,260 |
| 54 | Edgar | 1,229 |
| 55 | Patrick | 1,208 |
| 56 | Travis | 1,181 |
| 57 | Eduardo | 1,146 |
| 58 | Paul | 1,144 |
| 59 | Oscar | 1,130 |
| 60 | Ricardo | 1,128 |
| 61 | Adrian | 1,126 |
| 62 | Jeremy | 1,096 |
| 63 | Gabriel | 1,087 |
| 64 | Stephen | 1,066 |
| 65 | Nathan | 1,061 |
| 66 | Charles | 1,044 |
| 67 | Manuel | 1,042 |
| 68 | Edward | 1,016 |
| 69 | Antonio | 1,015 |
| 70 | Cameron | 1,000 |
| 71 | Scott | 998 |
| 72 | Martin | 997 |
| 73 | Kenneth | 993 |
| 74 | Alex | 967 |
| 75 | Mario | 957 |
| 76 | Sergio | 935 |
| 77 | Angel | 904 |
| 78 | Gregory | 901 |
| 79 | Erik | 894 |
| 80 | Vincent | 893 |
| 81 | Hector | 850 |
| 82 | Fernando | 834 |
| 82 | Taylor | 834 |
| 84 | Austin | 825 |
| 85 | Trevor | 823 |
| 86 | Omar | 806 |
| 87 | Javier | 802 |
| 88 | Raymond | 784 |
| 89 | Cesar | 777 |
| 90 | Roberto | 776 |
| 91 | Ruben | 769 |
| 92 | Derek | 752 |
| 93 | Ian | 736 |
| 94 | Joel | 734 |
| 95 | Ivan | 717 |
| 96 | George | 705 |
| 97 | Peter | 697 |
| 98 | Evan | 671 |
| 99 | Julio | 656 |
| 100 | Raul | 653 |