Most popular boys’ names in California, 2008
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Daniel | 3,757 |
| 2 | Anthony | 3,641 |
| 3 | Angel | 3,173 |
| 4 | Jacob | 3,029 |
| 5 | David | 2,917 |
| 6 | Alexander | 2,890 |
| 7 | Andrew | 2,828 |
| 8 | Joshua | 2,765 |
| 9 | Christopher | 2,609 |
| 10 | Jose | 2,573 |
| 11 | Matthew | 2,545 |
| 12 | Nathan | 2,528 |
| 13 | Ethan | 2,522 |
| 14 | Michael | 2,521 |
| 15 | Jonathan | 2,314 |
| 16 | Joseph | 2,215 |
| 17 | Diego | 2,145 |
| 18 | Adrian | 2,138 |
| 19 | Jayden | 2,057 |
| 20 | Brandon | 2,021 |
| 21 | Isaac | 1,969 |
| 22 | Noah | 1,942 |
| 23 | Kevin | 1,915 |
| 24 | Christian | 1,889 |
| 25 | Ryan | 1,842 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Aiden | 1,793 |
| 27 | Luis | 1,787 |
| 28 | Julian | 1,783 |
| 29 | Juan | 1,723 |
| 30 | Jesus | 1,696 |
| 31 | Gabriel | 1,675 |
| 32 | Aaron | 1,564 |
| 33 | Dylan | 1,552 |
| 34 | Carlos | 1,538 |
| 35 | Isaiah | 1,518 |
| 36 | William | 1,477 |
| 37 | Benjamin | 1,430 |
| 38 | Nicholas | 1,418 |
| 39 | James | 1,413 |
| 40 | Samuel | 1,385 |
| 41 | Elijah | 1,370 |
| 42 | Sebastian | 1,307 |
| 43 | Justin | 1,276 |
| 44 | Miguel | 1,253 |
| 45 | Bryan | 1,250 |
| 46 | Logan | 1,225 |
| 47 | Jason | 1,180 |
| 48 | Tyler | 1,179 |
| 49 | John | 1,144 |
| 50 | Alejandro | 1,115 |
| 51 | Evan | 1,114 |
| 52 | Jordan | 1,111 |
| 53 | Gavin | 1,071 |
| 54 | Aidan | 1,034 |
| 55 | Robert | 1,002 |
| 56 | Jack | 984 |
| 57 | Luke | 951 |
| 58 | Oscar | 926 |
| 59 | Damian | 922 |
| 60 | Lucas | 916 |
| 61 | Victor | 910 |
| 62 | Brian | 902 |
| 63 | Ivan | 901 |
| 64 | Ricardo | 876 |
| 65 | Adam | 866 |
| 66 | Jorge | 865 |
| 67 | Eric | 863 |
| 68 | Caleb | 849 |
| 69 | Eduardo | 835 |
| 70 | Alex | 825 |
| 71 | Zachary | 810 |
| 72 | Andres | 806 |
| 73 | Jackson | 797 |
| 74 | Xavier | 791 |
| 75 | Omar | 776 |
| 76 | Cesar | 768 |
| 77 | Jesse | 765 |
| 77 | Mason | 765 |
| 77 | Nathaniel | 765 |
| 80 | Alan | 749 |
| 81 | Steven | 735 |
| 82 | Ian | 733 |
| 83 | Dominic | 721 |
| 84 | Sean | 708 |
| 85 | Francisco | 702 |
| 85 | Giovanni | 702 |
| 87 | Thomas | 699 |
| 88 | Fernando | 697 |
| 89 | Antonio | 695 |
| 90 | Joel | 681 |
| 91 | Richard | 680 |
| 92 | Austin | 677 |
| 93 | Jeremiah | 661 |
| 94 | Emmanuel | 653 |
| 95 | Santiago | 648 |
| 96 | Alexis | 645 |
| 96 | Henry | 645 |
| 98 | Leonardo | 637 |
| 99 | Jaden | 630 |
| 100 | Josiah | 625 |
| 100 | Vincent | 625 |