Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1980

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,499
2	Christopher	1,345
3	David	1,192
3	Robert	1,192
5	John	1,179
6	Jason	1,133
7	Joseph	1,122
8	Brian	990
9	James	979
10	Daniel	977
11	Matthew	918
12	William	768
13	Anthony	719
14	Thomas	684
15	Kevin	651
16	Ryan	590
17	Richard	555
18	Nicholas	539
19	Eric	537
20	Jeffrey	522
21	Justin	483
22	Steven	461
23	Andrew	460
24	Timothy	458
25	Jonathan	453

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Mark	426
27	Scott	395
28	Paul	388
29	Charles	384
30	Adam	378
31	Edward	371
32	Stephen	361
33	Joshua	355
34	Peter	348
35	Sean	333
36	Gregory	304
37	Patrick	300
38	Kenneth	292
39	Jose	283
40	Keith	252
41	George	227
42	Frank	213
43	Ronald	203
44	Douglas	197
45	Raymond	187
46	Luis	185
47	Bryan	178
47	Shawn	178
49	Benjamin	171
50	Vincent	161
51	Erik	152
52	Dennis	151
53	Jesse	150
54	Jeremy	147
54	Juan	147
56	Donald	144
57	Gary	142
58	Christian	140
59	Alexander	137
59	Samuel	137
61	Carlos	135
61	Craig	135
63	Philip	131
64	Aaron	130
65	Derek	128
66	Kyle	122
67	Marc	120
68	Todd	118
69	Angel	114
70	Ian	113
71	Louis	110
72	Shaun	107
73	Victor	106
74	Omar	100
75	Andre	98
76	Antonio	93
76	Edwin	93
76	Joel	93
79	Jared	90
79	Miguel	90
81	Lawrence	89
82	Corey	87
83	Carl	82
84	Francis	81
85	Brett	80
86	Albert	77
87	Chad	73
88	Evan	72
89	Larry	71
89	Phillip	71
91	Hector	70
91	Randy	70
93	Russell	69
94	Walter	67
95	Brandon	65
95	Bruce	65
95	Marcus	65
98	Alan	64
99	Wayne	63
100	Gerald	61