Most popular boys’ names in California, 2002
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 4,136 |
| 2 | Anthony | 3,772 |
| 3 | Jose | 3,558 |
| 4 | Andrew | 3,557 |
| 5 | Jacob | 3,385 |
| 6 | Joshua | 3,382 |
| 7 | Michael | 3,238 |
| 8 | David | 3,194 |
| 9 | Matthew | 3,093 |
| 10 | Christopher | 2,904 |
| 11 | Angel | 2,888 |
| 12 | Jonathan | 2,725 |
| 13 | Joseph | 2,705 |
| 14 | Alexander | 2,395 |
| 15 | Kevin | 2,347 |
| 16 | Ryan | 2,289 |
| 17 | Brandon | 2,269 |
| 18 | Ethan | 2,263 |
| 19 | Christian | 2,261 |
| 20 | Nicholas | 2,208 |
| 21 | Juan | 2,060 |
| 22 | Luis | 1,988 |
| 23 | Jesus | 1,976 |
| 24 | Nathan | 1,942 |
| 25 | Justin | 1,937 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Gabriel | 1,788 |
| 27 | Carlos | 1,781 |
| 28 | Adrian | 1,673 |
| 29 | Bryan | 1,666 |
| 30 | Jason | 1,605 |
| 31 | William | 1,569 |
| 32 | Samuel | 1,563 |
| 33 | Tyler | 1,537 |
| 34 | Brian | 1,531 |
| 35 | Dylan | 1,493 |
| 36 | James | 1,472 |
| 37 | Isaac | 1,450 |
| 38 | John | 1,435 |
| 39 | Diego | 1,394 |
| 40 | Miguel | 1,386 |
| 41 | Isaiah | 1,346 |
| 42 | Benjamin | 1,335 |
| 43 | Aaron | 1,323 |
| 43 | Alejandro | 1,323 |
| 45 | Robert | 1,322 |
| 46 | Eric | 1,298 |
| 47 | Julian | 1,234 |
| 48 | Zachary | 1,200 |
| 49 | Elijah | 1,163 |
| 50 | Noah | 1,144 |
| 51 | Jordan | 1,094 |
| 52 | Sebastian | 1,086 |
| 53 | Kyle | 1,084 |
| 54 | Eduardo | 1,026 |
| 55 | Victor | 1,012 |
| 56 | Jorge | 1,008 |
| 57 | Alex | 991 |
| 58 | Oscar | 987 |
| 58 | Steven | 987 |
| 60 | Austin | 976 |
| 61 | Jack | 974 |
| 62 | Thomas | 933 |
| 63 | Adam | 924 |
| 64 | Jesse | 908 |
| 65 | Richard | 902 |
| 66 | Francisco | 894 |
| 67 | Aidan | 893 |
| 68 | Ivan | 861 |
| 69 | Logan | 856 |
| 70 | Ricardo | 836 |
| 71 | Nathaniel | 835 |
| 72 | Andres | 834 |
| 73 | Cesar | 833 |
| 74 | Sean | 823 |
| 75 | Antonio | 811 |
| 76 | Fernando | 804 |
| 77 | Luke | 795 |
| 78 | Ian | 770 |
| 79 | Cameron | 763 |
| 80 | Manuel | 736 |
| 81 | Caleb | 722 |
| 81 | Connor | 722 |
| 83 | Dominic | 709 |
| 84 | Alexis | 696 |
| 85 | Evan | 689 |
| 86 | Cristian | 683 |
| 87 | Javier | 681 |
| 88 | Omar | 678 |
| 89 | Edgar | 672 |
| 90 | Jackson | 666 |
| 91 | Sergio | 656 |
| 92 | Jared | 651 |
| 93 | Alan | 637 |
| 94 | Vincent | 616 |
| 95 | Mario | 613 |
| 96 | Erick | 612 |
| 97 | Cole | 595 |
| 97 | Mason | 595 |
| 99 | Gavin | 585 |
| 99 | Lucas | 585 |