Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1989

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,983
2	Christopher	1,856
3	Matthew	1,706
4	Daniel	1,477
5	Joseph	1,374
6	John	1,305
7	Robert	1,154
8	Anthony	1,135
9	David	1,118
10	Andrew	1,070
11	Kevin	972
12	James	968
13	Ryan	943
14	Brian	934
15	Nicholas	908
16	Jonathan	889
17	Thomas	823
18	William	763
19	Joshua	714
20	Justin	711
21	Steven	703
22	Kyle	630
23	Eric	629
24	Richard	570
25	Sean	566

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Alexander	545
27	Timothy	511
28	Jason	486
29	Mark	471
30	Jeffrey	462
31	Stephen	458
32	Patrick	418
33	Gregory	391
34	Adam	377
35	Brandon	354
36	Charles	332
37	Zachary	329
38	Paul	328
38	Scott	328
40	Kenneth	313
41	Jose	300
42	Bryan	294
43	Peter	292
44	Edward	283
45	Benjamin	279
46	Vincent	257
47	Corey	226
48	Christian	223
49	Keith	218
50	Jesse	215
51	George	212
52	Samuel	207
53	Luis	205
54	Frank	204
54	Travis	204
56	Aaron	200
57	Alex	198
58	Jeremy	196
59	Tyler	181
60	Carlos	180
61	Raymond	178
62	Evan	166
63	Jordan	165
64	Douglas	164
65	Shawn	162
66	Ian	154
67	Jacob	152
68	Philip	147
69	Ronald	144
70	Derek	141
71	Jared	138
71	Louis	138
73	Craig	129
74	Juan	128
75	Angel	126
76	Victor	123
77	Edwin	116
77	Marc	116
79	Antonio	115
80	Gary	109
80	Joel	109
82	Shane	107
83	Dennis	105
84	Erik	104
85	Phillip	103
86	Brett	101
87	Brendan	97
87	Miguel	97
89	Marcus	96
90	Andre	92
91	Donald	90
92	Jorge	89
93	Derrick	88
94	Colin	86
94	Johnathan	86
96	Francis	82
97	Austin	78
97	Trevor	78
99	Julian	77
100	Gabriel	76