Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1986

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,650
2	Christopher	1,757
3	Matthew	1,475
4	Daniel	1,411
5	Joseph	1,185
6	David	1,163
7	Robert	1,149
8	John	1,105
9	James	1,019
10	Andrew	951
11	Anthony	931
12	Ryan	866
13	Brian	848
14	Thomas	797
15	Kevin	779
16	William	766
17	Jonathan	730
18	Jason	706
19	Steven	648
20	Nicholas	624
21	Eric	551
22	Richard	531
23	Kyle	526
24	Justin	521
25	Timothy	519

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Jeffrey	493
27	Sean	481
28	Joshua	473
29	Mark	452
30	Stephen	450
31	Adam	392
32	Alexander	382
33	Gregory	376
34	Patrick	365
35	Scott	362
36	Paul	325
37	Peter	308
38	Charles	301
39	Brandon	293
40	Edward	283
41	Kenneth	276
42	Bryan	271
43	Jose	244
44	Jeremy	240
45	Frank	225
46	Luis	223
47	Keith	220
48	Shawn	218
49	Benjamin	213
50	Vincent	198
51	Jesse	190
52	George	187
53	Zachary	169
54	Christian	168
55	Samuel	166
56	Raymond	164
57	Aaron	152
58	Carlos	148
59	Alex	147
60	Ronald	137
61	Douglas	136
62	Gary	130
63	Evan	129
64	Craig	126
65	Jordan	123
66	Philip	122
67	Donald	119
68	Jared	118
68	Juan	118
70	Brett	116
70	Ian	116
72	Dennis	113
73	Louis	111
74	Corey	110
74	Marc	110
76	Angel	109
77	Derek	106
78	Tyler	105
79	Phillip	104
80	Marcus	102
81	Victor	100
82	Antonio	97
83	Jacob	95
84	Miguel	94
85	Edwin	85
86	Andre	84
87	Erik	83
88	Lawrence	81
89	Carl	79
89	Joel	79
89	Todd	79
92	Omar	78
92	Shane	78
94	Francis	77
95	Gabriel	75
96	Shaun	74
97	Brendan	72
97	Hector	72
97	Travis	72
100	Wayne	68