Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 2005

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	1,085
2	Matthew	972
3	Ryan	920
4	Anthony	866
5	Joseph	852
6	Nicholas	817
7	Christopher	782
8	Daniel	760
9	John	690
10	Andrew	638
11	Joshua	630
12	Alexander	609
13	David	557
14	Justin	521
15	Tyler	519
16	Jack	489
17	William	484
18	Brandon	477
19	Jacob	473
20	Kevin	458
21	Christian	445
22	Jonathan	440
23	James	432
24	Thomas	427
25	Dylan	424

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ethan	408
27	Aidan	374
28	Robert	361
29	Jason	342
30	Zachary	328
31	Benjamin	325
32	Brian	324
33	Gabriel	321
34	Sean	319
35	Evan	305
36	Connor	283
37	Jake	279
38	Samuel	275
39	Luke	267
40	Jayden	258
41	Kyle	255
42	Nathan	248
43	Jordan	238
44	Elijah	236
45	Lucas	232
46	Angel	222
47	Noah	218
48	Charles	211
48	Gavin	211
50	Eric	209
51	Bryan	208
52	Alex	207
52	Patrick	207
54	Logan	203
55	Aiden	199
56	Aaron	195
57	Luis	193
58	Steven	192
59	Sebastian	190
60	Isaiah	187
61	Colin	183
62	Owen	182
63	Jose	181
64	Adam	174
65	Vincent	164
66	Richard	162
67	Ian	161
68	Liam	160
69	Julian	156
70	Xavier	154
71	Timothy	149
72	Jaden	147
73	Nathaniel	146
74	Carlos	145
75	Mason	143
76	Mark	140
77	Paul	139
78	Jeremy	137
79	Edward	133
79	Juan	133
81	Dominic	132
82	Adrian	131
82	Jeremiah	131
84	Antonio	127
85	George	126
86	Peter	124
87	Jackson	121
88	Joel	119
88	Shane	119
90	Cole	115
90	Stephen	115
92	Cameron	114
93	Austin	112
93	Isaac	112
95	Nicolas	111
96	Jared	109
97	Miguel	108
98	Giovanni	105
98	Jeffrey	105
100	Victor	104