Author

Jack Lin
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Based in Taipei, Taiwan
Jack is a software engineer based in Taipei, Taiwan. He built NamesPop because the naming tools he found online all felt the same: slow, ad-heavy, and better at gathering SEO keywords than answering a parent's actual question.
He spends most of his writing time on trend analysis, data provenance, and the question of how software changes the small family decisions that used to happen in living rooms. Lately he has been thinking about how algorithms shape naming itself — what it means when a top-100 list starts to feel like a recommendation engine.
He lives with a rabbit named Money, which is where most of his pet-naming opinions come from.
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Jack Lin's contributions
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Memorial Day Recap: This Week's Names for Babies and Pets
A weekly wrap of the biggest name movers across sports, TV, and the holiday — the names that defined May 19-27, 2026.
·10 min read
- ArticleOpinion
Why Otto Beats Ozzie: A Vintage Boy Name Showdown
Otto vs. Ozzie — two MLB-fueled retro boy names in a head-to-head matchup. One is ready for 2026. The other is not quite there yet.
·9 min read
- Articleanalysis
Knicks, Thunder, Canadiens: Best Sports Pet Names Right Now
A data-driven breakdown of the hottest playoff-inspired pet names dominating May 2026 — from NYC energy to OKC thunder to Montreal French.
·9 min read
- Baby commentary
Channing
Channing ranks #1,696 in American baby names, with 7,205 children — boys and girls both — receiving this name across SSA records, a dual-gender spread that reflects the surname-na…
- Baby commentary
Hardin
Hardin has 1,261 births in the SSA records with a peak in 2021 — and almost certainly owes a significant share of those births to Hardin Scott, the brooding, book-loving protagoni…
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Huck
Huck has just 1,488 recorded U.S. births in the SSA database — one of the most literary one-syllable names in American naming history, loaded with adventure and completely free of…
- Baby commentary
Ignatius
Ignatius has 3,975 recorded U.S. births in the SSA database — a name of extraordinary intellectual and spiritual weight that has never been common, and is therefore exactly as rar…
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Jurnee
Jurnee ranks #1,705 in American baby names, with 4,430 children on record — a name that transforms the English word "journey" into something visual and intimate, and that carries…
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Stiles
Stiles has 879 recorded births in the SSA data with its peak in 2024 — the most recent peak in this batch — and virtually all of those births owe a debt to one fictional character…
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Tyrell
Tyrell ranks #1,703 in American baby names, with 15,987 boys on record — a name that arrived in America through medieval French nobility, gained momentum through African American…
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Venus
Venus has 9,858 recorded U.S. births in the SSA database — a name that has radiated beauty, power, and athletic excellence for millennia, and in the 21st century belongs unmistaka…
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Xion
Xion has been given to 912 boys in the United States since 1999, with its peak arriving in 2024 when 95 boys received the name — a trajectory that tracks almost perfectly with the…
- Pet commentary
Baku
With just 23 pets named Baku in our dataset, this is a name that carries the weight of a capital city, a mythological creature, and one of gaming's most beloved dreamscapes — all…
- Pet commentary
Bryan
Bryan ranks #3,461 among pet names in our dataset, claimed by just 23 pets across the U.S. — a number that makes it genuinely unusual territory for an animal. Most Bryans you meet…
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Cal
Cal sits at rank #3,463 in our pet name data, held by exactly 23 animals — which means finding a pet named Cal is a rare pleasure, like discovering a dive bar with excellent light…
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Caper
Caper has 23 registered pets in our data and ranks #3,466 — but among cats in particular, it's quietly establishing a food-herb niche that Basil and Sage started and Caper is read…
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Casino
Casino sits at rank #3,468 with just 23 pets carrying the name — a rarity that somehow feels appropriate for a name defined by long odds and high stakes. Not many owners go there,…
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Chimmy
Chimmy has 23 pets in our dataset at rank #3,472, which means roughly 23 BTS fans have named their animal after one of the most beloved characters in K-pop merchandise history. Th…
- Pet commentary
Clove
Clove registers 23 times in our data at rank #3,474 — rare enough to be a genuine discovery, and specifically a cat name: our breed data places it squarely among Domestic Shorthai…
- Pet commentary
Crouton
Crouton appears 23 times in our dataset at rank #3,475, living proof that the food-name category has no floor and no ceiling — someone looked at an American Shorthair cat and said…
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