Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1984

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,674
2	Christopher	1,716
3	Matthew	1,399
4	Daniel	1,299
5	Joseph	1,179
6	John	1,160
7	David	1,158
8	Robert	1,155
9	Brian	976
10	James	955
11	Ryan	816
12	Anthony	812
13	Jason	789
14	William	737
15	Thomas	734
16	Kevin	665
17	Jonathan	660
18	Andrew	632
19	Steven	588
20	Richard	527
21	Nicholas	516
22	Eric	513
23	Timothy	486
24	Justin	479
25	Jeffrey	475

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Adam	463
27	Joshua	439
28	Mark	435
29	Stephen	412
30	Sean	387
31	Gregory	374
32	Paul	349
33	Charles	335
34	Scott	331
35	Patrick	316
36	Edward	313
37	Kyle	307
38	Peter	286
39	Jose	261
40	Kenneth	249
41	Bryan	232
42	Brandon	228
43	Alexander	223
44	Frank	202
45	Keith	188
46	Shawn	177
47	George	174
48	Douglas	171
48	Luis	171
50	Aaron	164
51	Vincent	162
52	Christian	160
53	Raymond	158
54	Donald	156
55	Benjamin	151
55	Jesse	151
57	Craig	148
58	Ronald	138
59	Philip	137
60	Carlos	122
61	Gary	120
62	Andre	119
62	Jeremy	119
64	Samuel	116
65	Travis	115
66	Marc	113
67	Derek	112
68	Angel	109
68	Dennis	109
68	Erik	109
71	Jared	105
72	Ian	104
73	Louis	101
74	Juan	99
75	Zachary	96
76	Evan	95
77	Brett	92
78	Joel	87
79	Gabriel	85
79	Marcus	85
81	Miguel	83
81	Victor	83
83	Antonio	82
83	Omar	82
83	Todd	82
86	Edwin	81
87	Jordan	79
88	Shaun	78
89	Alex	75
89	Lawrence	75
91	Corey	72
91	Phillip	72
93	Francis	70
94	Nathan	65
95	Alan	64
96	Glenn	61
96	Russell	61
98	Julio	60
99	Albert	59
99	Jacob	59