Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1985

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,587
2	Christopher	1,740
3	Matthew	1,390
4	Daniel	1,322
5	Joseph	1,264
6	Robert	1,160
7	David	1,139
8	John	1,095
9	James	1,044
10	Anthony	908
11	Brian	890
12	Ryan	809
13	Andrew	804
14	William	767
15	Thomas	749
16	Jonathan	728
17	Jason	727
18	Kevin	721
19	Steven	638
20	Nicholas	589
21	Eric	563
22	Richard	551
23	Joshua	499
24	Timothy	483
25	Jeffrey	481

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Justin	478
27	Sean	468
28	Mark	462
29	Stephen	431
30	Kyle	414
31	Adam	406
32	Gregory	405
33	Patrick	367
34	Paul	353
35	Scott	334
36	Charles	325
37	Alexander	314
38	Brandon	300
39	Edward	284
40	Bryan	270
41	Peter	269
42	Kenneth	259
43	Jose	227
44	Keith	216
45	George	214
46	Frank	205
46	Shawn	205
48	Benjamin	197
49	Luis	188
50	Raymond	186
50	Vincent	186
52	Jesse	173
53	Aaron	172
54	Douglas	165
55	Jeremy	158
56	Ronald	149
57	Gary	147
58	Marc	146
59	Craig	145
59	Zachary	145
61	Philip	143
62	Ian	142
63	Samuel	137
64	Christian	136
65	Carlos	130
66	Angel	128
67	Donald	123
68	Dennis	116
68	Erik	116
68	Evan	116
71	Juan	115
72	Derek	110
73	Alex	104
74	Brett	102
75	Victor	101
76	Antonio	100
76	Jared	100
78	Louis	97
78	Travis	97
80	Edwin	95
81	Gabriel	92
81	Joel	92
83	Jacob	90
84	Andre	87
84	Corey	87
86	Tyler	82
87	Jordan	79
87	Phillip	79
89	Lawrence	78
89	Marcus	78
89	Shaun	78
92	Miguel	76
92	Todd	76
94	Shane	75
95	Jorge	73
96	Derrick	72
97	Francis	71
98	Albert	70
98	Drew	70
98	Walter	70