Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1978

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	4,091
2	Jason	2,695
3	Matthew	2,231
4	David	2,152
5	Christopher	2,099
6	John	2,086
7	James	2,024
8	Robert	1,839
9	Brian	1,807
10	Joseph	1,610
11	Daniel	1,426
12	William	1,410
13	Thomas	1,156
14	Timothy	1,141
15	Kevin	1,082
16	Ryan	1,065
17	Eric	1,016
18	Jeffrey	995
19	Joshua	971
20	Mark	931
21	Andrew	924
22	Richard	896
23	Scott	802
24	Anthony	795
25	Steven	784

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Justin	761
27	Jeremy	742
28	Nicholas	734
29	Stephen	724
30	Shawn	694
31	Charles	693
32	Adam	670
33	Jonathan	606
34	Gregory	564
35	Chad	557
36	Paul	547
37	Benjamin	509
38	Edward	500
39	Aaron	491
40	Patrick	464
41	Kenneth	461
41	Nathan	461
43	Keith	432
44	Sean	420
45	Todd	401
46	Ronald	400
47	Donald	371
47	George	371
49	Bryan	361
50	Douglas	349
51	Peter	326
52	Shaun	318
53	Bradley	301
54	Brandon	297
55	Craig	296
56	Gary	288
57	Dennis	285
58	Samuel	274
59	Raymond	243
60	Jesse	240
61	Frank	237
62	Travis	223
63	Corey	220
64	Philip	211
65	Kyle	196
66	Jacob	195
67	Marc	188
68	Cory	185
69	Jared	183
70	Vincent	176
71	Francis	172
71	Shane	172
73	Joel	169
74	Brad	165
75	Derek	157
75	Lawrence	157
77	Christian	155
77	Seth	155
79	Jamie	150
79	Larry	150
81	Troy	142
82	Erik	138
83	Dustin	137
84	Carl	136
85	Randy	133
86	Russell	132
87	Walter	130
88	Brent	129
88	Ian	129
88	Phillip	129
91	Zachary	120
92	Louis	116
93	Kristopher	115
94	Damon	114
94	Jose	114
96	Brett	113
97	Nathaniel	112
98	Alexander	111
99	Wesley	110
100	Wayne	109