Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1984

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	3,733
2	Matthew	2,943
3	Christopher	2,458
4	David	1,932
5	Joshua	1,786
6	Daniel	1,780
7	Joseph	1,742
8	John	1,735
9	Robert	1,657
10	Ryan	1,632
11	Jason	1,617
12	James	1,592
13	Andrew	1,441
14	Brian	1,359
15	Justin	1,314
16	William	1,236
17	Adam	1,206
18	Thomas	1,086
19	Anthony	1,044
20	Jonathan	1,021
21	Kevin	1,012
22	Eric	1,005
23	Timothy	958
24	Brandon	945
25	Nicholas	906

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Steven	870
27	Mark	839
28	Stephen	818
29	Richard	802
30	Jeffrey	775
31	Scott	627
32	Patrick	622
33	Benjamin	614
34	Sean	607
35	Nathan	598
36	Gregory	562
37	Charles	561
38	Kyle	540
39	Zachary	536
40	Paul	516
41	Jeremy	501
42	Aaron	486
43	Shawn	474
44	Bryan	410
44	Edward	410
46	Kenneth	384
47	Chad	369
48	Travis	359
49	Dustin	340
50	Jesse	334
51	Jacob	332
52	Bradley	323
53	Tyler	308
54	Keith	290
55	Donald	287
56	Peter	279
57	Douglas	278
58	Alexander	276
59	Derek	274
60	Jared	273
61	Ronald	253
62	Samuel	249
63	Philip	227
64	Jordan	221
65	Brett	218
66	Craig	217
66	George	217
68	Ian	216
69	Gary	209
70	Todd	208
71	Frank	206
72	Raymond	202
73	Corey	196
74	Vincent	184
75	Cory	172
76	Dennis	171
76	Shane	171
78	Joel	166
79	Seth	158
80	Christian	154
80	Nathaniel	154
82	Marcus	152
83	Cody	142
84	Luke	141
85	Curtis	138
85	Francis	138
85	Marc	138
88	Evan	134
89	Derrick	133
89	Phillip	133
91	Brent	130
92	Russell	129
93	Maurice	127
94	Erik	123
95	Randy	118
96	Alan	115
96	Shaun	115
98	Andre	112
99	Gerald	109
100	Troy	108