Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1966

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	4,794
2	John	3,764
3	David	3,626
4	James	3,609
5	Robert	3,299
6	Mark	2,086
7	William	2,051
8	Jeffrey	1,886
9	Thomas	1,862
10	Steven	1,851
11	Richard	1,848
12	Timothy	1,844
13	Brian	1,796
14	Scott	1,675
15	Joseph	1,579
16	Daniel	1,567
17	Kevin	1,483
18	Christopher	1,391
19	Anthony	1,386
20	Paul	1,324
21	Kenneth	1,176
22	Charles	1,103
23	Ronald	1,050
24	Eric	943
25	Gregory	928

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Donald	856
27	Todd	833
28	Patrick	759
29	Edward	758
30	Stephen	700
31	Keith	677
32	Gary	668
33	Matthew	640
34	Douglas	614
35	Andrew	588
36	Peter	530
37	Rodney	512
38	Jeffery	501
39	George	496
40	Frank	480
41	Craig	469
42	Dennis	462
43	Terry	428
44	Larry	409
45	Raymond	406
46	Jerry	389
47	Bradley	379
48	Bryan	351
49	Roger	346
50	Tony	329
51	Sean	312
52	Troy	310
53	Lawrence	304
54	Randy	301
55	Steve	300
56	Carl	297
57	Bruce	283
58	Martin	281
59	Vincent	279
60	Jeff	277
60	Phillip	277
62	Mike	269
63	Gerald	262
64	Alan	261
65	Chris	251
66	Dale	245
67	Darryl	242
67	Philip	242
69	Shawn	241
70	Wayne	237
71	Jose	236
72	Randall	232
73	Curtis	231
73	Russell	231
75	Darren	228
76	Jon	225
77	Andre	218
77	Kurt	218
79	Tim	213
79	Walter	213
81	Derrick	211
82	Victor	203
83	Dean	199
83	Glenn	199
85	Danny	196
86	Jonathan	194
87	Ricky	192
88	Samuel	190
89	Jay	188
90	Marc	179
91	Arthur	178
92	Henry	173
93	Louis	172
94	Reginald	166
95	Eugene	165
96	Joe	164
97	Harold	162
98	Darrin	160
99	Johnny	159
100	Roy	157