Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1983

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	3,583
2	Matthew	2,477
3	Christopher	2,459
4	David	1,935
5	Daniel	1,813
6	James	1,666
7	Joseph	1,636
8	Jason	1,606
9	Robert	1,604
10	John	1,529
11	Ryan	1,490
12	Joshua	1,437
13	Brian	1,405
14	Adam	1,341
15	Andrew	1,289
16	Anthony	1,192
17	Justin	1,168
18	Nicholas	1,093
19	Eric	1,092
20	Kevin	1,033
21	William	992
22	Brandon	943
23	Timothy	938
24	Steven	928
25	Jonathan	913

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Thomas	867
27	Jeffrey	803
28	Mark	758
29	Kyle	694
30	Patrick	668
31	Aaron	654
32	Richard	643
33	Scott	625
34	Benjamin	605
35	Charles	572
36	Jacob	570
37	Jeremy	565
38	Gregory	557
39	Paul	556
40	Nathan	488
41	Stephen	478
42	Jose	439
43	Sean	435
44	Kenneth	414
45	Dustin	399
46	Bradley	395
47	Zachary	366
48	Marcus	356
49	Bryan	355
50	Peter	342
51	Derek	335
52	Edward	321
53	Travis	316
54	Juan	289
55	Alexander	286
56	Keith	275
57	Chad	271
58	Antonio	265
59	Phillip	260
60	Samuel	249
61	Donald	243
62	Jesse	241
63	Brett	240
64	Ronald	237
65	Jared	235
66	Shawn	229
67	Erik	228
68	Tyler	221
69	Douglas	215
70	George	212
71	Luis	201
72	Carlos	197
73	Craig	195
74	Frank	189
75	Raymond	188
76	Joel	183
77	Nathaniel	181
78	Derrick	179
79	Corey	173
79	Larry	173
81	Jordan	171
81	Philip	171
83	Todd	162
84	Vincent	160
85	Victor	152
86	Jesus	150
87	Jeffery	148
88	Alan	147
88	Miguel	147
90	Cory	144
91	Maurice	142
92	Jeremiah	141
92	Lucas	141
94	Mario	140
95	Gary	138
96	Dennis	137
96	Ricardo	137
96	Seth	137
99	Brent	136
99	Carl	136