Most popular boys’ names in California, 1997
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,453 |
| 2 | Michael | 4,311 |
| 3 | Jose | 4,157 |
| 4 | Anthony | 3,910 |
| 5 | David | 3,732 |
| 6 | Christopher | 3,723 |
| 7 | Andrew | 3,561 |
| 8 | Matthew | 3,260 |
| 9 | Jonathan | 3,252 |
| 10 | Jacob | 3,246 |
| 11 | Joshua | 3,109 |
| 12 | Joseph | 2,886 |
| 13 | Brandon | 2,846 |
| 14 | Nicholas | 2,635 |
| 15 | Christian | 2,604 |
| 16 | Kevin | 2,563 |
| 17 | Luis | 2,494 |
| 18 | Ryan | 2,375 |
| 19 | Juan | 2,355 |
| 20 | Alexander | 2,185 |
| 21 | Justin | 2,163 |
| 22 | Jesus | 2,015 |
| 23 | Austin | 1,950 |
| 24 | Tyler | 1,878 |
| 25 | John | 1,841 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Angel | 1,796 |
| 27 | James | 1,778 |
| 28 | Robert | 1,750 |
| 29 | Carlos | 1,746 |
| 30 | Brian | 1,689 |
| 31 | Eric | 1,653 |
| 32 | Kyle | 1,608 |
| 33 | William | 1,606 |
| 34 | Samuel | 1,591 |
| 35 | Alejandro | 1,563 |
| 36 | Miguel | 1,543 |
| 37 | Zachary | 1,470 |
| 38 | Gabriel | 1,464 |
| 39 | Aaron | 1,353 |
| 40 | Jordan | 1,330 |
| 41 | Jason | 1,325 |
| 42 | Steven | 1,316 |
| 43 | Alexis | 1,309 |
| 44 | Adrian | 1,237 |
| 45 | Benjamin | 1,217 |
| 46 | Bryan | 1,210 |
| 47 | Francisco | 1,186 |
| 48 | Oscar | 1,142 |
| 48 | Richard | 1,142 |
| 50 | Jorge | 1,137 |
| 51 | Jesse | 1,112 |
| 52 | Eduardo | 1,108 |
| 53 | Nathan | 1,106 |
| 54 | Victor | 1,095 |
| 55 | Ricardo | 1,074 |
| 56 | Thomas | 1,051 |
| 57 | Dylan | 1,031 |
| 58 | Adam | 993 |
| 59 | Noah | 979 |
| 60 | Antonio | 976 |
| 61 | Isaac | 974 |
| 62 | Fernando | 947 |
| 63 | Alex | 943 |
| 64 | Cameron | 931 |
| 65 | Sean | 924 |
| 66 | Isaiah | 909 |
| 67 | Mark | 872 |
| 68 | Manuel | 865 |
| 69 | Andres | 847 |
| 70 | Edgar | 812 |
| 71 | Cristian | 790 |
| 72 | Ivan | 785 |
| 73 | Sergio | 780 |
| 74 | Javier | 757 |
| 75 | Timothy | 738 |
| 76 | Cesar | 735 |
| 77 | Ethan | 730 |
| 78 | Julian | 704 |
| 79 | Mario | 701 |
| 80 | Diego | 700 |
| 80 | Omar | 700 |
| 82 | Hector | 679 |
| 82 | Jeremy | 679 |
| 84 | Edward | 677 |
| 85 | Roberto | 669 |
| 86 | Erik | 667 |
| 87 | Jared | 664 |
| 88 | Connor | 660 |
| 89 | Martin | 656 |
| 90 | Elijah | 651 |
| 91 | Nathaniel | 649 |
| 91 | Patrick | 649 |
| 93 | Evan | 648 |
| 94 | Cody | 637 |
| 95 | Marco | 635 |
| 96 | Jeffrey | 629 |
| 97 | Ruben | 615 |
| 98 | Charles | 611 |
| 98 | Erick | 611 |
| 100 | Raymond | 610 |