Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1970

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	4,979
2	David	3,247
3	John	3,200
4	Robert	3,177
5	James	3,136
6	Brian	2,014
7	Christopher	1,978
8	William	1,945
9	Mark	1,847
10	Jeffrey	1,783
11	Scott	1,736
12	Steven	1,700
13	Thomas	1,659
14	Richard	1,568
15	Joseph	1,553
16	Kevin	1,518
17	Daniel	1,480
18	Timothy	1,377
19	Anthony	1,362
20	Eric	1,335
21	Matthew	1,246
22	Jason	1,220
23	Paul	1,154
24	Charles	1,084
25	Kenneth	918

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Todd	882
27	Gregory	836
28	Ronald	794
29	Patrick	754
30	Edward	711
31	Donald	705
32	Andrew	700
33	Stephen	633
34	Douglas	628
35	Keith	603
36	Peter	511
37	Sean	508
38	Bradley	507
39	Craig	487
40	Gary	452
41	George	446
42	Shawn	443
43	Frank	433
44	Jeffery	419
45	Larry	402
46	Aaron	392
47	Troy	385
48	Dennis	378
49	Jose	366
50	Jonathan	365
51	Jerry	355
52	Raymond	349
53	Chad	337
54	Bryan	324
55	Terry	307
56	Marcus	304
57	Tony	284
58	Rodney	281
59	Carl	280
60	Russell	267
61	Marc	266
62	Phillip	262
63	Lawrence	255
64	Andre	253
65	Gerald	239
66	Adam	236
67	Derrick	234
68	Brett	233
68	Randy	233
70	Joel	231
71	Corey	230
72	Brent	223
73	Vincent	222
74	Juan	220
75	Martin	214
76	Curtis	211
77	Darren	208
78	Derek	205
79	Maurice	203
80	Kurt	200
81	Erik	193
82	Jon	191
83	Carlos	190
84	Wayne	189
85	Chris	188
86	Alan	187
86	Roger	187
86	Willie	187
89	Victor	185
90	Philip	183
91	Randall	182
92	Jeremy	181
92	Samuel	181
94	Jeff	178
95	Dale	175
95	Nicholas	175
97	Johnny	174
98	Lance	169
99	Walter	167
100	Luis	166