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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Maple
Maple ranks #247 with 452 entries and rides the broader nature-name wave that has reshaped female pet naming over the past decade. Alongside Willow, Hazel, Ivy, and Olive, Maple b…
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Mason
Mason ranks #226 with 489 entries and is another full-human-name pet pick — the name has been a top-100 SSA male name through much of the 2000s and 2010s, which makes pet Masons p…
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Max
Max is a single closed syllable that ends in a hard consonant — three sound features that show up in almost every dog-training book's chapter on what makes a recallable name. He s…
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Maya
Maya ranks #94 with 1,044 entries, and it is one of the most genuinely cross-cultural names in the top 100. The same spelling carries serious weight in Sanskrit, Spanish, Hebrew,…
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Mika
Mika ranks at #403 with 307 entries, leaning female. The name is a cross-cultural diminutive — Japanese (where it can mean "beautiful fragrance" or "new moon" depending on kanji),…
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Mimi
Mimi ranks #133 with 798 entries and belongs to the soft-diminutive register that dominates female small-pet naming. The name is what owners pick when they want pure affection wit…
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Miss
Miss ranks at #376 with 329 entries, leaning female. This is a title-as-name pick — owners using the honorific Miss as a standalone name or as a nickname extracted from a longer f…
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Momo
Momo ranks #217 with 499 entries and is one of the few genuinely gender-neutral pet names in this tier. The reduplicated MOH-MOH structure is one of the friendliest sound patterns…
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Muffin
Muffin ranks #259 with 436 entries and is a food-name pet pick with a different register from Mango or Cinnamon — Muffin reads as cozy, soft, and unmistakably indoor. The name is…
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Murray
Murray ranks at #397 with 312 entries, leaning male. A Scottish surname-as-given-name (originally a place name meaning "settlement by the sea"), Murray reads as a warm, slightly g…
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Na
Na is the data anomaly in our top 50. With 1,623 entries at rank #48, the name is almost certainly an artifact of the underlying licensing data rather than a genuine pet name choi…
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Nova
Nova ranks #141 with 756 entries and is one of the cleanest examples of the celestial-feminine pet naming wave. The name reads as bright, modern, and slightly sci-fi. Owners pick…
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Nugget
Nugget ranks at #284 with 398 entries, and it is one of the most distinctly modern food-name picks on the chart. The casual-affectionate register has come to dominate millennial a…
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Olivia
Olivia ranks #238 with 459 entries and is the most direct human-name borrowing in this tier — Olivia has been the #1 SSA female baby name for several consecutive years (most recen…
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Ollie
Ollie is the diminutive form of Oliver that has fully separated into its own naming register. With 1,585 entries at rank #51, Ollie sits separately in the data from Oliver (#20) —…
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Oreo
Oreo is the most literal name in our top 25. With 2,526 entries at rank #24, the name describes a coat pattern — black-and-white, ideally with the white in the middle — and almost…
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Otis
Otis ranks #125 with 898 entries and sits in a specific cultural pocket: vintage-American, slightly soulful, and just unusual enough to feel deliberate. The name has roots in Otis…
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Otto
Otto ranks at #184 with 576 entries, and the name has done something uncommon: it has come back from a multi-decade dormancy on both baby and pet charts since around 2010. The Ger…
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Peaches
Peaches ranks at #287 with 395 entries, and it is one of the most distinctly southern-coded affectionate names on the chart. The fruit-as-endearment pattern, paired with a regiona…
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Peanut
Peanut is one of the few top-100 pet names that operates as an honest physical description. It ranks #64 with 1,358 entries, and the overwhelming majority of those entries are tin…
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