Most popular boys’ names in Ohio, 1986

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	3,002
2	Matthew	2,400
3	Christopher	2,325
4	Joshua	2,011
5	Andrew	1,788
6	David	1,684
7	Ryan	1,634
8	James	1,539
9	Daniel	1,526
10	Robert	1,474
11	Brandon	1,426
12	Joseph	1,357
13	Justin	1,302
14	John	1,284
15	Nicholas	1,258
16	Kyle	1,159
17	Brian	1,116
18	Adam	1,111
19	Anthony	1,079
20	William	1,023
21	Jason	1,022
22	Eric	938
23	Kevin	925
24	Jonathan	914
25	Timothy	907

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Thomas	839
27	Steven	831
28	Jeremy	813
29	Benjamin	757
30	Zachary	736
31	Aaron	727
32	Jeffrey	691
33	Mark	680
34	Dustin	658
35	Jacob	634
36	Richard	628
37	Charles	620
38	Tyler	575
39	Nathan	569
40	Gregory	560
41	Scott	526
42	Stephen	522
43	Sean	517
44	Alexander	505
45	Bradley	466
46	Patrick	463
47	Shawn	431
48	Bryan	411
49	Chad	405
50	Paul	400
51	Jordan	386
52	Kenneth	378
53	Jesse	343
54	Derek	337
55	Travis	319
56	Keith	295
57	Cory	291
57	Jared	291
59	Donald	289
60	Corey	287
61	Cody	276
62	Samuel	273
63	Douglas	252
64	Nathaniel	244
65	Brett	238
66	Shane	237
67	Alex	234
68	Craig	232
69	Ronald	226
70	Phillip	225
71	Marcus	220
72	Seth	219
73	Edward	218
74	Gary	208
75	Todd	198
76	Brent	184
77	Ian	182
78	Joel	181
79	Philip	180
80	Peter	173
81	Raymond	172
82	Evan	159
83	Antonio	157
84	George	153
85	Curtis	147
86	Wesley	146
87	Derrick	139
88	Larry	137
89	Luke	134
90	Terry	132
91	Jeffery	129
92	Mitchell	128
93	Carl	127
94	Vincent	125
95	Casey	123
96	Jeremiah	121
97	Shaun	120
98	Alan	118
98	Austin	118
100	Dennis	117