Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1985

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	3,371
2	Christopher	2,383
3	Matthew	2,320
4	Daniel	2,013
5	David	1,883
6	Ryan	1,705
7	Joshua	1,569
8	James	1,553
9	Robert	1,529
10	Joseph	1,527
11	Andrew	1,461
12	John	1,345
13	Brian	1,285
14	Nicholas	1,283
15	Jason	1,271
16	Anthony	1,202
17	Brandon	1,192
18	Adam	1,105
19	Eric	1,056
20	Kevin	1,029
21	Steven	1,028
22	Timothy	984
23	Justin	966
24	Jonathan	925
25	William	889

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Kyle	863
27	Thomas	855
28	Jeffrey	725
29	Patrick	720
30	Mark	715
31	Richard	659
32	Jacob	638
33	Aaron	619
34	Jeremy	592
35	Benjamin	586
36	Scott	579
37	Zachary	573
38	Sean	558
39	Charles	557
40	Gregory	490
41	Paul	486
42	Nathan	485
43	Stephen	449
44	Bradley	435
45	Kenneth	427
46	Alexander	425
47	Jose	419
48	Bryan	412
49	Tyler	384
50	Dustin	379
51	Peter	316
52	Derek	314
53	Marcus	309
54	Edward	302
55	Keith	298
56	Samuel	274
57	Chad	264
58	Antonio	261
59	Travis	253
60	Jesse	251
61	Shawn	239
62	Phillip	238
63	Juan	233
64	Brett	232
65	Cody	231
65	Corey	231
67	Alex	225
68	Jared	223
69	Ronald	216
70	Jordan	213
71	Joel	212
72	Donald	208
73	George	206
74	Craig	200
75	Erik	199
76	Philip	196
77	Luis	194
77	Nathaniel	194
79	Douglas	193
80	Raymond	185
81	Carlos	181
82	Cory	178
83	Frank	168
83	Ian	168
85	Vincent	165
86	Derrick	163
87	Andre	156
88	Luke	155
88	Victor	155
90	Shane	152
91	Brent	150
91	Mario	150
91	Maurice	150
94	Curtis	147
95	Carl	144
96	Lucas	141
96	Todd	141
98	Gary	140
99	Lawrence	139
100	Miguel	138