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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Josie
Josie ranks #214 with 503 entries and reads as the slightly tomboy cousin of the Callie/Daisy diminutive cluster. The J-opener gives the name more snap than the soft-consonant alt…
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Juno
Juno ranks at #191 with 562 entries, and the name has been on a steady climb since around 2008, when the Diablo Cody-written film with Ellen Page brought the name into mainstream…
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Khloe
Khloe sits at #361 with 338 entries, leaning strongly female. The spelling is the giveaway — this is a Kardashian-era pick, downstream of the reality-TV cultural footprint that st…
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King
King is the kind of name owners pick when they want the dog to be the centerpiece of the household, not a sidekick. It ranks #61 in our combined NYC and Seattle dataset with 1,409…
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Kiwi
Kiwi ranks at #391 with 316 entries, leaning female. The name carries three distinct cultural references that all contribute to its pet-naming volume: the fruit (green, sweet, sli…
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Koda
Koda ranks at #187 with 571 entries, and the name belongs to the post-2003 cohort of pet names that owe their existence to the 2003 Disney film Brother Bear . Koda the bear cub ga…
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Koko
Koko ranks #314 with 373 entries and is one of the more sonically distinctive picks on the lower-mid chart. The repeated K-K shape gives it instant recall, and the gender-neutral…
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Lacey
Lacey ranks at #297 with 386 entries, and it sits in the soft-feminine register that has held a steady place on female pet charts for decades. The name reads warm and slightly del…
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Lady
Lady is the Disney name. With 1,667 entries at rank #45, she traces almost entirely to a single 1955 film — Lady and the Tramp — and the cultural anchor has been doing pet-naming…
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Leia
Leia ranks #253 with 443 entries and is a directly Star Wars-anchored pet name that pairs naturally with Chewie, Yoda, Luke, and Han in multi-pet households. Princess Leia from A…
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Lexi
Lexi ranks #88 with 1,121 entries and is another of the diminutives that has fully escaped its source. Owners pick Lexi directly, not as a shortened Alexandra or Alexis. The name…
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Lilly
Lilly ranks #115 with 945 entries and is the alternative spelling of Lily that pet owners disproportionately favor. The double-L gives the name a softer, more diminutive feel than…
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Little
Little ranks #223 with 490 entries — and unlike most pet names in this tier, it is a descriptor that became a name. Owners who pick Little are almost always pointing at the obviou…
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Logan
Logan ranks at #161 with 653 entries, and the name sits in the same human-crossover lane as Hunter or Mason. It reads as a mid-2000s baby name first, a pet name second, and the sp…
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Lucy
Lucy is the cat name hiding in a list of dog names. She ranks #8 in our overall pet data, but if you look at just the Domestic Shorthair cat population she jumps to #2 (behind onl…
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Luna
Here's a pattern that surprised me when I first ran the breed query: Luna is the #1 name for Domestic Shorthair cats and the #1 name for Labrador Retrievers in our NYC and Seattle…
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Mabel
Mabel ranks at #210 with 511 entries, and the name closes out the recovering-vintage cluster on this batch in style. Mabel was a top-30 SSA girls' name in the 1880s-1890s, vanishe…
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Mac
Mac ranks #320 with 367 entries and is one of the most efficient male pet names on the chart. One syllable, hard ending, instant recall. It is the kind of name owners pick when th…
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Maddie
Maddie ranks at #194 with 552 entries, and the name follows the same diminutive-as-given pattern that Izzy works a few ranks higher. Maddie is the everyday call name for Madeline,…
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Maisie
Maisie ranks at #306 with 379 entries, and it sits in the modern-vintage-female register that has reshaped pet naming over the last decade. The British-coded warmth of the name ha…
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