Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1988

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,857
2	Christopher	1,749
3	Matthew	1,631
4	Daniel	1,376
5	Joseph	1,263
6	John	1,189
7	David	1,185
8	Robert	1,128
9	Andrew	1,032
10	Anthony	1,025
11	James	1,008
12	Brian	861
13	Thomas	850
14	Kevin	838
14	Ryan	838
16	Jonathan	832
17	William	826
18	Nicholas	781
19	Eric	743
20	Justin	740
21	Steven	638
22	Kyle	584
23	Richard	574
24	Timothy	552
25	Joshua	550

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Sean	524
27	Jason	519
28	Jeffrey	504
29	Alexander	492
30	Mark	485
31	Stephen	463
32	Patrick	408
33	Adam	367
34	Gregory	359
35	Paul	341
36	Scott	319
37	Peter	315
38	Charles	308
39	Brandon	296
40	Zachary	294
41	Bryan	286
42	Kenneth	282
43	Edward	272
44	Benjamin	241
44	Keith	241
46	Jose	232
47	Vincent	230
48	Frank	228
49	Luis	202
50	Aaron	198
50	Samuel	198
52	Travis	193
53	Christian	184
54	Jeremy	183
55	Shawn	175
56	Alex	167
56	Jesse	167
58	George	163
59	Douglas	157
60	Carlos	154
60	Corey	154
60	Derek	154
63	Raymond	153
64	Evan	145
65	Gary	143
66	Ronald	141
67	Ian	139
68	Jordan	137
69	Jacob	128
70	Craig	127
71	Juan	126
72	Philip	123
73	Dennis	122
74	Tyler	120
75	Angel	117
76	Brett	115
77	Victor	114
78	Jared	112
79	Marc	111
80	Donald	110
80	Louis	110
82	Erik	109
83	Cory	103
84	Antonio	101
85	Shane	99
86	Francis	97
87	Brendan	94
88	Edwin	92
89	Joel	91
89	Marcus	91
91	Miguel	90
92	Phillip	89
93	Andre	87
94	Albert	84
95	Manuel	82
96	Colin	80
97	Lawrence	78
98	Omar	77
99	Gabriel	75
100	Carl	74
100	Russell	74