Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1982

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,631
2	Christopher	1,681
3	Matthew	1,219
4	Robert	1,193
5	David	1,174
6	John	1,162
7	Joseph	1,138
8	Daniel	1,052
9	Jason	1,043
10	Brian	991
11	James	967
12	William	793
13	Anthony	771
14	Thomas	690
15	Ryan	671
16	Andrew	585
17	Justin	580
18	Kevin	579
19	Jonathan	566
20	Richard	558
21	Jeffrey	507
22	Eric	495
23	Steven	492
24	Nicholas	476
25	Mark	438

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Timothy	411
27	Adam	405
28	Gregory	396
29	Sean	395
30	Scott	390
31	Stephen	381
32	Joshua	368
33	Paul	341
34	Patrick	331
35	Peter	319
36	Charles	312
37	Edward	294
38	Kenneth	279
39	Jose	257
40	Keith	240
41	Frank	202
41	George	202
43	Bryan	199
44	Shawn	188
45	Alexander	179
46	Benjamin	178
47	Jesse	176
48	Luis	174
49	Raymond	172
50	Christian	171
50	Kyle	171
52	Ronald	168
53	Vincent	164
54	Aaron	163
55	Douglas	161
56	Craig	149
57	Dennis	143
58	Jeremy	141
59	Brandon	138
60	Carlos	132
61	Gary	128
62	Philip	124
63	Angel	122
63	Samuel	122
65	Jared	120
66	Juan	114
67	Donald	113
68	Derek	111
69	Miguel	109
69	Todd	109
71	Ian	108
72	Marc	106
73	Travis	103
73	Victor	103
75	Shaun	98
76	Evan	97
77	Andre	94
78	Joel	93
78	Louis	93
80	Erik	91
80	Omar	91
82	Edwin	83
82	Walter	83
84	Francis	80
85	Antonio	79
85	Zachary	79
87	Corey	76
87	Hector	76
89	Brett	75
89	Jorge	75
89	Lawrence	75
92	Marcus	74
93	Manuel	73
94	Phillip	72
95	Russell	71
95	Wayne	71
97	Albert	69
98	Alexis	68
99	Chad	67
100	Carl	66