Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1976

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	4,155
2	Jason	2,687
3	David	2,151
4	Christopher	2,146
5	John	2,114
6	James	1,950
7	Robert	1,946
8	Matthew	1,943
9	Brian	1,931
10	Joseph	1,590
11	William	1,456
12	Daniel	1,308
13	Thomas	1,156
14	Eric	1,115
15	Kevin	1,065
16	Jeffrey	1,037
17	Scott	1,005
18	Mark	990
19	Richard	976
20	Timothy	945
21	Steven	868
22	Ryan	848
23	Andrew	840
24	Jeremy	814
25	Anthony	805

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Shawn	763
27	Charles	735
28	Joshua	683
29	Chad	650
30	Stephen	632
31	Jonathan	619
32	Paul	612
33	Gregory	584
34	Benjamin	530
35	Justin	511
36	Adam	493
37	Kenneth	483
38	Edward	481
39	Ronald	468
40	Keith	455
40	Sean	455
42	Todd	447
43	Aaron	417
44	Patrick	410
45	Nathan	392
46	George	369
47	Donald	366
48	Douglas	362
49	Bryan	331
50	Gary	299
51	Peter	294
52	Bradley	289
53	Dennis	282
54	Craig	281
55	Raymond	278
56	Frank	272
57	Samuel	253
58	Brandon	222
59	Nicholas	218
60	Jamie	212
60	Jesse	212
62	Shane	206
63	Philip	198
64	Brad	187
65	Corey	185
66	Travis	183
67	Vincent	181
68	Joel	174
69	Marc	169
70	Jacob	160
71	Terry	159
72	Troy	158
73	Randy	157
74	Larry	153
75	Brett	146
76	Wayne	144
77	Derek	142
77	Kyle	142
79	Carl	141
80	Christian	139
80	Gerald	139
82	Damon	138
83	Francis	135
83	Lawrence	135
85	Brent	130
85	Jared	130
87	Eugene	129
87	Ian	129
89	Seth	125
90	Russell	121
91	Erik	120
91	Jose	120
91	Louis	120
94	Allen	113
95	Alan	112
96	Harry	111
97	Walter	110
98	Bruce	109
99	Andre	108
99	Jay	108