Most popular boys’ names in California, 2001
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,165 |
| 2 | Anthony | 3,827 |
| 3 | Andrew | 3,447 |
| 4 | Jose | 3,428 |
| 5 | Jacob | 3,385 |
| 6 | David | 3,346 |
| 7 | Michael | 3,295 |
| 8 | Joshua | 3,216 |
| 9 | Matthew | 3,083 |
| 10 | Christopher | 3,035 |
| 11 | Jonathan | 2,879 |
| 12 | Joseph | 2,730 |
| 13 | Angel | 2,470 |
| 14 | Kevin | 2,399 |
| 15 | Christian | 2,340 |
| 16 | Nicholas | 2,326 |
| 17 | Ryan | 2,323 |
| 18 | Brandon | 2,271 |
| 19 | Luis | 2,152 |
| 20 | Alexander | 2,086 |
| 21 | Jesus | 2,067 |
| 22 | Justin | 2,015 |
| 23 | Juan | 1,989 |
| 24 | Carlos | 1,923 |
| 25 | Ethan | 1,764 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Gabriel | 1,762 |
| 27 | Nathan | 1,746 |
| 28 | Jason | 1,735 |
| 29 | Dylan | 1,659 |
| 30 | William | 1,624 |
| 31 | Samuel | 1,622 |
| 32 | Tyler | 1,582 |
| 33 | Adrian | 1,580 |
| 34 | John | 1,579 |
| 35 | Brian | 1,555 |
| 36 | Bryan | 1,528 |
| 37 | Alejandro | 1,488 |
| 38 | Isaac | 1,438 |
| 39 | Robert | 1,433 |
| 40 | Benjamin | 1,427 |
| 41 | Miguel | 1,412 |
| 42 | James | 1,396 |
| 43 | Aaron | 1,348 |
| 44 | Isaiah | 1,344 |
| 45 | Eric | 1,339 |
| 46 | Noah | 1,272 |
| 47 | Zachary | 1,226 |
| 48 | Eduardo | 1,214 |
| 49 | Kyle | 1,178 |
| 50 | Julian | 1,140 |
| 51 | Jordan | 1,109 |
| 52 | Jorge | 1,072 |
| 53 | Sebastian | 1,056 |
| 54 | Steven | 1,043 |
| 55 | Thomas | 1,029 |
| 56 | Victor | 1,028 |
| 57 | Oscar | 1,016 |
| 58 | Elijah | 1,006 |
| 59 | Alex | 963 |
| 60 | Austin | 954 |
| 61 | Diego | 930 |
| 62 | Francisco | 916 |
| 63 | Fernando | 912 |
| 64 | Ricardo | 908 |
| 65 | Cameron | 906 |
| 66 | Ivan | 902 |
| 67 | Logan | 897 |
| 68 | Andres | 892 |
| 69 | Sean | 885 |
| 70 | Adam | 871 |
| 70 | Jack | 871 |
| 72 | Richard | 863 |
| 73 | Alexis | 839 |
| 74 | Cesar | 825 |
| 75 | Jesse | 821 |
| 76 | Jared | 807 |
| 77 | Antonio | 791 |
| 78 | Edgar | 765 |
| 79 | Cristian | 746 |
| 79 | Omar | 746 |
| 81 | Javier | 740 |
| 82 | Caleb | 737 |
| 83 | Manuel | 732 |
| 84 | Nathaniel | 715 |
| 85 | Luke | 701 |
| 86 | Ian | 698 |
| 87 | Connor | 696 |
| 88 | Evan | 680 |
| 89 | Mark | 654 |
| 90 | Sergio | 634 |
| 91 | Alan | 606 |
| 92 | Hector | 602 |
| 92 | Mason | 602 |
| 94 | Vincent | 598 |
| 95 | Ruben | 586 |
| 96 | Erik | 585 |
| 97 | Edward | 583 |
| 98 | Hunter | 581 |
| 99 | Joel | 571 |
| 100 | Cole | 570 |