Most popular boys’ names in Michigan, 1984

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,730
2	Christopher	2,097
3	Matthew	2,074
4	David	1,579
5	Ryan	1,505
6	Joshua	1,477
7	Daniel	1,342
8	Jason	1,339
9	Andrew	1,274
10	Robert	1,270
11	James	1,261
12	Joseph	1,242
13	Adam	1,196
14	Brandon	1,139
15	Nicholas	1,118
16	Brian	1,059
17	John	1,050
18	Justin	1,039
19	Eric	1,029
20	Anthony	869
21	Steven	846
22	Kevin	819
23	William	781
24	Thomas	760
25	Jeffrey	730

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Aaron	728
27	Timothy	723
28	Jonathan	670
29	Kyle	660
30	Scott	647
31	Benjamin	582
32	Mark	566
33	Nathan	539
34	Jeremy	519
35	Richard	516
36	Jacob	496
37	Paul	463
38	Patrick	444
39	Charles	440
40	Stephen	414
41	Chad	389
42	Bradley	380
43	Gregory	362
43	Kenneth	362
45	Sean	333
46	Bryan	319
47	Derek	313
48	Travis	308
49	Dustin	307
50	Zachary	290
51	Keith	255
52	Donald	239
52	Joel	239
54	Shawn	231
55	Tyler	228
56	Marcus	227
57	Jesse	219
58	Peter	211
59	Alexander	210
60	Corey	208
61	Ronald	203
62	Craig	196
63	Douglas	190
64	Jordan	189
65	Brent	175
66	Edward	167
67	Gary	166
68	Erik	163
69	Jared	161
69	Phillip	161
71	Jeffery	160
72	Samuel	157
73	Brett	155
73	Todd	155
75	Jonathon	152
76	Philip	149
77	Ian	146
77	Nathaniel	146
79	Antonio	143
79	Raymond	143
81	Shane	135
82	Evan	134
82	Troy	134
84	Alan	131
85	Andre	129
85	Derrick	129
85	Randy	129
88	Lance	128
89	Cory	126
89	Curtis	126
89	Trevor	126
92	Dennis	125
93	Casey	122
94	Carl	120
95	Larry	116
96	Cody	111
96	George	111
98	Gerald	98
98	Lawrence	98
100	Shaun	97