Most popular boys’ names in California, 1998
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,319 |
| 2 | Jose | 4,281 |
| 3 | Michael | 4,132 |
| 4 | Anthony | 3,884 |
| 5 | Jacob | 3,568 |
| 6 | David | 3,478 |
| 7 | Matthew | 3,456 |
| 8 | Andrew | 3,434 |
| 9 | Christopher | 3,387 |
| 10 | Joshua | 3,255 |
| 11 | Jonathan | 3,078 |
| 12 | Joseph | 2,952 |
| 13 | Nicholas | 2,757 |
| 14 | Brandon | 2,733 |
| 15 | Ryan | 2,432 |
| 16 | Juan | 2,370 |
| 17 | Christian | 2,353 |
| 18 | Luis | 2,299 |
| 19 | Alexander | 2,229 |
| 19 | Kevin | 2,229 |
| 21 | Justin | 2,096 |
| 22 | Angel | 1,920 |
| 23 | Jesus | 1,908 |
| 24 | Tyler | 1,819 |
| 25 | Robert | 1,795 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | John | 1,731 |
| 27 | Carlos | 1,699 |
| 28 | Adrian | 1,684 |
| 29 | James | 1,663 |
| 30 | William | 1,616 |
| 31 | Kyle | 1,614 |
| 32 | Gabriel | 1,593 |
| 33 | Eric | 1,587 |
| 34 | Austin | 1,576 |
| 35 | Brian | 1,547 |
| 36 | Samuel | 1,494 |
| 37 | Alejandro | 1,461 |
| 38 | Jason | 1,449 |
| 39 | Miguel | 1,438 |
| 40 | Zachary | 1,405 |
| 41 | Aaron | 1,387 |
| 42 | Jordan | 1,385 |
| 43 | Noah | 1,368 |
| 44 | Nathan | 1,326 |
| 45 | Bryan | 1,271 |
| 46 | Dylan | 1,263 |
| 47 | Steven | 1,257 |
| 48 | Jorge | 1,240 |
| 49 | Benjamin | 1,198 |
| 50 | Oscar | 1,140 |
| 51 | Richard | 1,121 |
| 52 | Victor | 1,107 |
| 53 | Ricardo | 1,090 |
| 54 | Cameron | 1,086 |
| 55 | Isaac | 1,078 |
| 56 | Thomas | 1,063 |
| 57 | Francisco | 1,037 |
| 58 | Eduardo | 1,035 |
| 59 | Isaiah | 1,034 |
| 60 | Adam | 960 |
| 61 | Ethan | 959 |
| 61 | Jesse | 959 |
| 63 | Antonio | 954 |
| 64 | Sean | 940 |
| 65 | Manuel | 895 |
| 66 | Alex | 875 |
| 67 | Alexis | 868 |
| 68 | Cristian | 824 |
| 69 | Mark | 819 |
| 70 | Fernando | 818 |
| 71 | Andres | 784 |
| 72 | Cesar | 769 |
| 73 | Sergio | 765 |
| 74 | Ivan | 754 |
| 75 | Nathaniel | 738 |
| 76 | Edgar | 734 |
| 77 | Elijah | 729 |
| 78 | Jack | 727 |
| 79 | Javier | 725 |
| 80 | Jared | 711 |
| 80 | Julian | 711 |
| 82 | Omar | 701 |
| 83 | Diego | 697 |
| 84 | Timothy | 691 |
| 85 | Connor | 675 |
| 86 | Mario | 668 |
| 87 | Hector | 659 |
| 88 | Trevor | 647 |
| 89 | Roberto | 633 |
| 90 | Jeremy | 627 |
| 91 | Charles | 614 |
| 91 | Raymond | 614 |
| 93 | Hunter | 603 |
| 94 | Erik | 599 |
| 95 | Ruben | 597 |
| 96 | Evan | 595 |
| 97 | Vincent | 590 |
| 98 | Ian | 588 |
| 99 | Edward | 580 |
| 100 | Gerardo | 572 |