Most popular boys’ names in Michigan, 1974

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	3,003
2	Jason	2,911
3	Christopher	1,934
4	David	1,903
5	James	1,712
6	Robert	1,675
7	Brian	1,660
8	Matthew	1,553
9	John	1,405
10	Scott	1,189
11	Daniel	1,171
12	Jeffrey	1,119
13	Eric	1,103
14	William	1,060
15	Joseph	982
16	Mark	939
17	Kevin	932
18	Steven	928
19	Timothy	850
20	Richard	796
21	Thomas	752
22	Ryan	728
23	Chad	726
24	Jeremy	709
25	Anthony	694

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Andrew	681
27	Aaron	625
28	Charles	613
29	Paul	607
30	Todd	528
31	Kenneth	497
32	Shawn	483
33	Gregory	481
34	Joshua	446
35	Donald	422
36	Adam	419
37	Stephen	382
38	Jonathan	379
39	Ronald	376
40	Patrick	351
41	Benjamin	348
42	Keith	347
43	Edward	329
44	Sean	321
45	Douglas	320
46	Gary	317
47	Nathan	314
48	Craig	274
49	Bryan	271
50	Jeffery	267
51	Dennis	262
52	Bradley	253
53	Larry	249
54	Peter	244
55	Derek	233
56	Brandon	228
57	Justin	225
58	Shane	224
59	Jamie	222
60	Troy	216
61	Marc	212
62	Raymond	205
63	Brent	201
64	Terry	184
65	George	178
66	Corey	175
66	Damon	175
66	Joel	175
66	Nicholas	175
70	Frank	172
71	Gerald	171
72	Carl	166
73	Rodney	164
74	Phillip	158
75	Jerry	152
76	Erik	150
77	Randy	149
78	Lawrence	147
79	Samuel	145
80	Marcus	143
81	Philip	141
82	Jon	139
83	Travis	138
84	Jesse	134
85	Brad	133
85	Roger	133
87	Derrick	128
88	Andre	121
88	Kyle	121
90	Tony	120
91	Curtis	117
92	Alan	116
93	Dale	115
94	Martin	114
95	Brett	112
95	Russell	112
97	Jacob	107
98	Antonio	106
99	Randall	102
100	Wayne	101
100	Willie	101