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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Aiden
In 2009 Aiden was the No. 9 boy name in America. Sixteen years later it sits at No. 47, and the story of those sixteen years is basically the story of how a single name spawned a…
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Alana
A 35-year top-200 band without a single defining cultural anchor is unusually steady for a Celtic-origin pick. Alana peaked at rank 119 in 2007 and has been settling slowly since,…
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Alice
Alice is the rare American girls' name that has spent more than 140 consecutive years inside the SSA top 200. The 1921 peak was actually Alice's third high water mark in American…
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Ana
Ana has 110,100 cumulative American girls on SSA record and a 1991 peak at rank 119. The current rank of 204 reflects a long, steady fade from that peak, but Ana has been on the U…
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Antonio
Antonio peaked in 1997 at rank 76 and has slid to 180 in 2024. Over 260,000 American boys have carried the name. The chart shape is the textbook profile of a Latin-coded classic t…
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Arianna
Arianna reached its peak at rank 47 in 2014 and now sits at 195, with about 102,800 cumulative American girls on SSA record. The arc fits a recognizable late-2000s and 2010s wave…
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Arya
Arya was vanishingly rare in American records before 2010 and reached rank 119 by 2019 — one of the steepest single-decade climbs in modern American naming. The current rank is 16…
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Aurora
Aurora reached its highest-ever SSA rank of #16 in 2024 — a name that was outside the top 1000 in 1990 and outside the top 200 as recently as 2010. The climb has been steady rathe…
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Ayla
Ayla is at its peak in 2024 at rank 69 — meaning the name is still climbing. The trajectory from outside the SSA top 1000 in 2010 to inside the top 70 today is one of the steepest…
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Barrett
Barrett peaked in 2020 at rank 175 and now sits at 186. The chart shape shows a name that climbed steadily through the 2010s on the surname-firstname wave and has now reached a st…
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Beau
Beau hit its all-time SSA peak in 2024 at rank 69. The name has been climbing since 2010 with no plateau, no false start, no reversal. That kind of clean trajectory is rare for na…
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Beckett
Beckett peaked in 2024 at rank 166. The name is still climbing, and the trajectory has been remarkably consistent for over a decade. Beckett is the literary-prep flagship of the s…
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Beckham
Beckham peaked in 2024 at rank 168, its highest position to date. The name is one of the cleanest examples of a single celebrity-driven naming phenomenon in modern SSA data. There…
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Bentley
Bentley peaked in 2012 at rank 81 and has slid to 201 in 2024. Over 58,000 American boys have been named Bentley. The chart shape is one of the more dramatic short-arc patterns in…
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Brooks
Brooks hit its all-time SSA peak last year, in 2024, climbing to rank 67. That's notable because Brooks barely existed as a first name until 2010 — it sat outside the top 1000 for…
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Bryson
Bryson peaked in 2017 at rank 107 and has slid to 147 in 2024. The chart shape is the textbook trajectory of a 2010s -son surname pick. A slow climb through the 2000s, a brief hig…
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Callum
Callum is having its SSA moment right now. The 2024 peak at rank 159 is the highest the name has charted in the United States, and the climb has been unusually clean. No celebrity…
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Catalina
For decades Catalina was an inside-the-Hispanic-community pick that English-speaking American parents rarely considered. That changed quietly through the 2010s, with the name reac…
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Celeste
Celeste reached an earlier peak at rank 198 in 2004 and now sits at the same rank in 2024, two decades later. About 63,950 cumulative American girls bear the name on SSA record. T…
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Chase
Chase peaked in 2009 at rank 60 and has slid to 173 in 2024. Nearly 180,000 American boys have carried the name. The chart shape shows a 2000s favorite that is now in steady desce…
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