Most popular boys’ names in Wisconsin, 1980

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	1,435
2	Matthew	1,161
3	Jason	1,154
4	Joshua	1,014
5	Ryan	937
6	Nicholas	841
7	Christopher	839
8	David	805
9	Andrew	804
10	Daniel	741
11	Eric	733
12	Adam	719
13	Joseph	697
14	Brian	691
15	Justin	673
16	James	601
17	John	582
18	Robert	570
19	Timothy	524
20	Jeremy	523
21	Benjamin	511
22	Nathan	467
23	Scott	455
24	Chad	440
25	Kevin	425

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Thomas	404
27	Aaron	396
28	Steven	391
29	Jeffrey	389
30	Anthony	357
31	Jonathan	351
32	William	346
33	Travis	334
34	Jesse	333
35	Paul	331
36	Mark	305
37	Jacob	274
38	Bradley	266
39	Brandon	242
40	Peter	227
41	Richard	223
42	Patrick	220
43	Shawn	212
44	Derek	202
45	Kyle	201
46	Gregory	199
47	Lucas	187
48	Dustin	183
49	Luke	180
50	Charles	179
51	Craig	175
52	Erik	172
53	Bryan	154
54	Kenneth	148
55	Todd	142
56	Joel	136
57	Jeremiah	135
58	Shane	133
59	Keith	130
60	Cory	129
61	Corey	119
62	Stephen	116
63	Jared	112
64	Zachary	111
65	Brent	109
66	Douglas	107
67	Troy	104
67	Tyler	104
69	Jamie	103
70	Sean	101
71	Samuel	97
72	Nathaniel	92
73	Donald	91
74	Shaun	87
75	Casey	86
76	Kurt	85
77	Seth	84
78	Curtis	78
79	Brad	74
79	Edward	74
81	Philip	73
82	Brett	72
83	Phillip	71
84	Raymond	70
85	Lee	68
85	Randy	68
87	Alan	67
88	Jeffery	66
89	Dennis	64
89	Jay	64
89	Jon	64
92	Ronald	63
93	Gary	61
94	Mathew	56
95	Derrick	55
95	Frank	55
97	Carl	52
98	Jonathon	51
99	Kristopher	50
100	Neil	49