Most popular boys’ names in California, 1996
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,705 |
| 2 | Jose | 4,646 |
| 3 | Michael | 4,353 |
| 4 | David | 4,000 |
| 5 | Christopher | 3,944 |
| 6 | Anthony | 3,899 |
| 7 | Andrew | 3,580 |
| 8 | Joshua | 3,372 |
| 8 | Matthew | 3,372 |
| 10 | Jonathan | 3,367 |
| 11 | Joseph | 3,046 |
| 12 | Christian | 2,999 |
| 13 | Jacob | 2,987 |
| 14 | Nicholas | 2,863 |
| 15 | Brandon | 2,841 |
| 16 | Kevin | 2,831 |
| 17 | Juan | 2,566 |
| 18 | Ryan | 2,469 |
| 19 | Alexander | 2,292 |
| 20 | Justin | 2,290 |
| 21 | Luis | 2,263 |
| 22 | Austin | 2,129 |
| 23 | Tyler | 2,107 |
| 24 | Robert | 2,060 |
| 25 | Jesus | 2,020 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | John | 1,954 |
| 27 | Eric | 1,940 |
| 28 | Brian | 1,870 |
| 29 | James | 1,848 |
| 30 | Carlos | 1,832 |
| 31 | Angel | 1,680 |
| 32 | William | 1,675 |
| 33 | Miguel | 1,564 |
| 34 | Alejandro | 1,562 |
| 35 | Kyle | 1,554 |
| 36 | Samuel | 1,545 |
| 37 | Aaron | 1,537 |
| 38 | Zachary | 1,536 |
| 39 | Steven | 1,471 |
| 40 | Gabriel | 1,454 |
| 41 | Eduardo | 1,383 |
| 42 | Richard | 1,334 |
| 43 | Jorge | 1,328 |
| 44 | Benjamin | 1,305 |
| 45 | Adrian | 1,293 |
| 46 | Jason | 1,283 |
| 47 | Jordan | 1,279 |
| 48 | Victor | 1,257 |
| 49 | Oscar | 1,224 |
| 50 | Bryan | 1,201 |
| 51 | Jesse | 1,191 |
| 52 | Thomas | 1,186 |
| 53 | Francisco | 1,169 |
| 54 | Nathan | 1,139 |
| 55 | Ricardo | 1,111 |
| 56 | Cristian | 1,052 |
| 57 | Antonio | 1,017 |
| 58 | Adam | 1,000 |
| 59 | Sean | 999 |
| 60 | Edgar | 963 |
| 61 | Alex | 954 |
| 62 | Mark | 932 |
| 63 | Manuel | 918 |
| 64 | Dylan | 902 |
| 65 | Sergio | 889 |
| 66 | Cody | 863 |
| 67 | Cameron | 849 |
| 68 | Isaac | 832 |
| 69 | Noah | 831 |
| 70 | Omar | 827 |
| 71 | Andres | 821 |
| 71 | Timothy | 821 |
| 73 | Isaiah | 819 |
| 74 | Cesar | 814 |
| 75 | Mario | 808 |
| 76 | Fernando | 788 |
| 77 | Javier | 785 |
| 78 | Ivan | 764 |
| 79 | Patrick | 757 |
| 80 | Erik | 741 |
| 81 | Hector | 734 |
| 82 | Roberto | 716 |
| 83 | Alexis | 697 |
| 84 | Jeremy | 696 |
| 85 | Gerardo | 691 |
| 86 | Martin | 690 |
| 87 | Edward | 683 |
| 88 | Jeffrey | 680 |
| 89 | Julian | 672 |
| 90 | Erick | 661 |
| 91 | Raymond | 658 |
| 92 | Vincent | 656 |
| 93 | Ruben | 649 |
| 94 | Ian | 648 |
| 95 | Connor | 645 |
| 96 | Charles | 638 |
| 96 | Elijah | 638 |
| 98 | Marco | 622 |
| 99 | Trevor | 609 |
| 100 | Nathaniel | 608 |