Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1979

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,509
2	Christopher	1,450
3	David	1,322
4	John	1,202
5	Joseph	1,162
6	Robert	1,149
7	Jason	1,126
8	Brian	1,070
9	James	1,018
10	Daniel	946
11	Matthew	873
12	William	760
13	Thomas	679
14	Anthony	675
15	Kevin	594
16	Richard	548
17	Jeffrey	535
18	Steven	529
19	Nicholas	526
20	Ryan	473
21	Mark	470
22	Eric	450
23	Timothy	446
24	Andrew	435
25	Scott	399

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Paul	390
27	Jonathan	370
28	Stephen	356
29	Adam	354
30	Joshua	338
31	Edward	332
32	Peter	328
33	Charles	326
34	Gregory	314
35	Justin	303
36	Kenneth	292
37	Sean	291
38	Patrick	266
39	Jose	257
40	Keith	248
41	George	227
42	Frank	221
43	Bryan	213
44	Shawn	191
45	Ronald	176
46	Jeremy	174
47	Raymond	173
48	Douglas	172
49	Luis	169
50	Dennis	156
51	Vincent	155
52	Aaron	153
52	Benjamin	153
54	Donald	152
54	Todd	152
56	Erik	149
57	Kyle	146
58	Juan	143
59	Alexander	142
60	Philip	141
61	Carlos	137
61	Shaun	137
63	Gary	136
64	Craig	132
65	Christian	130
66	Marc	126
67	Victor	124
68	Angel	115
69	Omar	113
70	Samuel	112
71	Jesse	108
72	Louis	95
73	Edwin	93
74	Lawrence	90
75	Corey	89
76	Carl	86
77	Ian	85
78	Joel	83
79	Jared	81
79	Wayne	81
81	Hector	78
81	Miguel	78
81	Walter	78
84	Derek	77
85	Brett	76
86	Antonio	75
87	Evan	69
87	Phillip	69
89	Frederick	67
89	Jorge	67
91	Theodore	66
92	Russell	65
93	Andre	63
93	Bruce	63
93	Nelson	63
93	Rafael	63
97	Arthur	62
97	Brandon	62
97	Chad	62
97	Jamie	62