Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1971

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,860
2	John	1,958
3	Robert	1,913
4	David	1,719
5	James	1,682
6	Christopher	1,620
7	Joseph	1,341
8	William	1,236
9	Brian	1,099
10	Thomas	993
11	Richard	983
12	Scott	954
13	Anthony	831
14	Jeffrey	821
15	Daniel	773
15	Jason	773
17	Mark	767
18	Kevin	717
19	Steven	705
20	Eric	641
21	Matthew	608
22	Edward	603
23	Paul	585
24	Charles	504
25	Kenneth	489

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	482
27	Timothy	457
28	George	425
28	Sean	425
30	Gregory	416
31	Peter	415
32	Keith	405
33	Frank	388
34	Andrew	373
35	Ronald	357
36	Shawn	331
37	Patrick	327
38	Jose	308
39	Craig	293
40	Donald	290
41	Douglas	282
42	Raymond	272
43	Todd	270
44	Jonathan	230
45	Gary	224
45	Marc	224
47	Dennis	213
48	Luis	198
49	Vincent	195
50	Adam	189
51	Louis	180
52	Nicholas	169
53	Carlos	160
54	Walter	157
55	Glenn	155
56	Christian	154
57	Alexander	152
58	Philip	150
59	Bryan	146
60	Erik	139
61	Arthur	137
62	Bruce	136
62	Lawrence	136
62	Troy	136
65	Ryan	134
66	Frederick	132
67	Juan	128
68	Darren	126
68	Wayne	126
70	Henry	125
70	Martin	125
72	Albert	124
72	Victor	124
74	Russell	123
75	Kyle	118
76	Samuel	117
77	Carl	114
78	Francis	110
79	Aaron	109
79	Angel	109
81	Benjamin	106
81	Gerald	106
83	Antonio	105
84	Harry	104
85	Andre	102
86	Joshua	101
87	Derek	99
87	Derrick	99
87	Jeremy	99
90	Alan	98
91	Barry	95
92	Edwin	93
93	Eugene	92
94	Brett	89
95	Ralph	88
96	Corey	86
97	Chad	85
97	Leonard	85
99	Marcus	84
100	Tyrone	83