Most popular boys’ names in California, 2000
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,344 |
| 2 | Anthony | 3,840 |
| 3 | Jose | 3,805 |
| 4 | Andrew | 3,602 |
| 5 | Michael | 3,573 |
| 6 | Jacob | 3,520 |
| 7 | Joshua | 3,356 |
| 8 | Christopher | 3,337 |
| 9 | David | 3,280 |
| 10 | Matthew | 3,254 |
| 11 | Jonathan | 2,992 |
| 12 | Joseph | 2,780 |
| 13 | Brandon | 2,616 |
| 14 | Nicholas | 2,586 |
| 15 | Ryan | 2,556 |
| 16 | Christian | 2,435 |
| 17 | Kevin | 2,359 |
| 18 | Angel | 2,328 |
| 19 | Luis | 2,288 |
| 20 | Juan | 2,224 |
| 21 | Alexander | 2,181 |
| 22 | Justin | 2,164 |
| 23 | Jesus | 1,891 |
| 24 | Carlos | 1,788 |
| 25 | Brian | 1,741 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Nathan | 1,735 |
| 27 | William | 1,696 |
| 28 | Gabriel | 1,672 |
| 29 | John | 1,659 |
| 30 | Tyler | 1,655 |
| 31 | Adrian | 1,594 |
| 32 | Jason | 1,555 |
| 33 | Bryan | 1,552 |
| 34 | Ethan | 1,529 |
| 35 | Robert | 1,528 |
| 36 | Miguel | 1,488 |
| 37 | James | 1,481 |
| 38 | Eric | 1,466 |
| 39 | Alejandro | 1,464 |
| 40 | Zachary | 1,438 |
| 41 | Benjamin | 1,434 |
| 42 | Dylan | 1,425 |
| 43 | Samuel | 1,419 |
| 44 | Noah | 1,391 |
| 45 | Aaron | 1,362 |
| 46 | Isaac | 1,297 |
| 47 | Isaiah | 1,233 |
| 48 | Sebastian | 1,232 |
| 49 | Jordan | 1,216 |
| 50 | Kyle | 1,212 |
| 50 | Steven | 1,212 |
| 52 | Eduardo | 1,171 |
| 53 | Victor | 1,155 |
| 54 | Jorge | 1,107 |
| 55 | Julian | 1,092 |
| 56 | Oscar | 1,089 |
| 57 | Thomas | 1,061 |
| 58 | Cameron | 1,053 |
| 59 | Austin | 1,011 |
| 60 | Richard | 1,001 |
| 61 | Ricardo | 965 |
| 62 | Francisco | 964 |
| 63 | Alex | 943 |
| 64 | Diego | 927 |
| 65 | Fernando | 922 |
| 66 | Adam | 906 |
| 66 | Jack | 906 |
| 68 | Antonio | 905 |
| 69 | Alexis | 904 |
| 70 | Elijah | 893 |
| 71 | Jesse | 852 |
| 72 | Sean | 841 |
| 73 | Manuel | 835 |
| 74 | Andres | 830 |
| 75 | Jared | 805 |
| 76 | Cesar | 800 |
| 77 | Ivan | 790 |
| 78 | Nathaniel | 755 |
| 79 | Evan | 737 |
| 80 | Omar | 731 |
| 81 | Mark | 715 |
| 82 | Sergio | 710 |
| 83 | Javier | 703 |
| 84 | Cristian | 671 |
| 84 | Hunter | 671 |
| 86 | Edgar | 649 |
| 87 | Connor | 644 |
| 87 | Ian | 644 |
| 89 | Timothy | 643 |
| 90 | Gerardo | 637 |
| 91 | Mario | 630 |
| 92 | Hector | 617 |
| 93 | Roberto | 616 |
| 94 | Cole | 614 |
| 95 | Erick | 612 |
| 96 | Logan | 609 |
| 97 | Erik | 605 |
| 98 | Vincent | 602 |
| 99 | Ruben | 594 |
| 100 | Luke | 592 |