Most popular boys’ names in New York, 2006

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

RankNameBabies
1Michael1,983
2Matthew1,767
3Joseph1,615
4Anthony1,542
5Daniel1,489
6Christopher1,474
7Nicholas1,439
8Ryan1,432
9Joshua1,387
10Alexander1,210
11Jacob1,189
12David1,175
13Justin1,144
14Andrew1,122
15John1,107
16Ethan1,068
17James1,048
18Tyler967
19William955
20Jayden945
21Jack930
22Brandon925
23Kevin924
24Jonathan915
25Christian903
RankNameBabies
26Dylan856
27Jason793
28Benjamin778
29Aidan758
30Thomas735
31Samuel712
32Noah673
33Gabriel649
34Zachary617
35Elijah611
36Logan592
37Robert586
38Aiden582
39Jordan581
40Sean573
41Evan560
42Angel556
43Lucas532
44Brian529
45Luke521
45Nathan521
47Aaron519
48Isaiah507
49Connor499
50Adam476
51Eric472
52Alex469
53Charles458
54Kyle455
55Steven453
56Gavin442
57Owen438
58Jake426
59Sebastian424
60Jose406
61Xavier405
62Jaden400
63Liam391
64Vincent387
65Bryan380
66Jeremiah372
67Austin368
68Julian361
69Richard352
70Isaac346
71Jeremy345
72Nathaniel343
73Patrick341
74Luis336
75Cameron333
76Henry323
77Mason321
78Jackson307
79Carlos303
79Tristan303
81Adrian301
82Caleb292
83Ian288
84Dominic286
85Peter284
86Timothy282
87Moshe279
88Joel274
89Colin271
90Devin258
91Paul256
92Antonio244
93Diego242
93Juan242
95Hunter241
96Derek238
97Mark236
98Kenneth234
98Victor234
100Edward229