Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1987

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,783
2	Christopher	1,699
3	Matthew	1,594
4	Daniel	1,400
5	Joseph	1,302
6	David	1,164
7	John	1,128
8	Andrew	1,071
9	Robert	1,070
10	Anthony	966
11	James	936
12	Brian	932
13	Ryan	849
14	Kevin	828
15	Jonathan	800
16	William	798
17	Thomas	774
18	Nicholas	716
19	Steven	660
20	Jason	628
21	Justin	601
22	Eric	591
23	Timothy	574
24	Kyle	563
25	Joshua	552

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Richard	539
27	Jeffrey	534
28	Sean	532
29	Stephen	473
30	Mark	453
31	Alexander	443
32	Adam	385
33	Gregory	374
34	Patrick	366
35	Paul	362
35	Scott	362
37	Charles	332
38	Peter	323
39	Brandon	303
40	Bryan	284
41	Edward	276
42	Jose	268
43	Kenneth	266
44	Benjamin	236
45	Zachary	213
46	Keith	206
47	George	203
48	Jeremy	202
49	Frank	197
50	Vincent	195
51	Luis	189
52	Aaron	181
53	Philip	180
53	Samuel	180
55	Jesse	177
56	Raymond	175
57	Christian	169
58	Alex	168
59	Douglas	165
60	Carlos	163
61	Shawn	160
62	Ronald	152
63	Evan	142
64	Corey	140
65	Ian	132
66	Dennis	127
67	Marc	126
68	Donald	122
69	Juan	120
70	Jordan	117
70	Travis	117
72	Gary	115
73	Derek	114
74	Victor	113
75	Erik	112
76	Brett	109
76	Craig	109
76	Louis	109
79	Shane	106
79	Tyler	106
81	Angel	102
82	Antonio	101
83	Joel	99
84	Jacob	96
85	Edwin	94
86	Phillip	93
87	Cory	92
88	Jared	91
88	Marcus	91
90	Andre	88
91	Brendan	85
92	Lawrence	81
93	Colin	76
94	Devin	75
95	Albert	74
95	Francis	74
95	Miguel	74
98	Derrick	73
99	Shaun	71
100	Gabriel	67
100	Manuel	67