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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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Dev
Dev is a Sanskrit name meaning "god" or "divine" — from deva (देव), the Sanskrit word for deity that appears across Hindu theology, Buddhist scripture, and the broader Indo-Aryan…
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Dottie
Dottie is the diminutive of Dorothy — from Greek Dorothea , meaning "gift of God" (from doron , gift, and theos , God). With nearly 10,000 SSA records and a 1943 peak, Dottie is q…
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Draco
Draco is a Greek and Latin name meaning "dragon" or "serpent" — from drakon , the ancient Greek word for a large serpent or mythical dragon. Ranked #1280 with a peak in 2021 and a…
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Dua
Dua is an Arabic name meaning "prayer" — specifically the personal, supplicatory prayer offered in Islam as opposed to formal ritual prayer. With 1,253 SSA records and a 2024 peak…
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Ean
Ean is an Irish form of John — itself from the Hebrew Yochanan, meaning "God is gracious." It's the least common Anglicized spelling of a name that more often appears as Ian, Eoin…
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Eimy
Eimy is a Germanic-origin name — a phonetic spelling of Amy, from Old French Amée (beloved), ultimately from Latin amatus (loved). With about 1,169 SSA records and a 2024 peak, Ei…
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Eleanore
Eleanore is the most elaborate spelling of Eleanor: the Greek-origin name meaning "bright" or "light," adding the final -e that most modern spellings have dropped. With 18,567 SSA…
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Ellery
Ellery is an Old French name derived from a medieval form of Hilary — itself from Latin hilaris , meaning cheerful or merry. With 4,556 SSA records and a 2014 peak, Ellery has qui…
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Elon
Elon is a Hebrew name meaning "oak tree" — strong, deeply rooted, enduring. It appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of one of the judges of Israel. Ranked #1259 with a peak in…
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Elyana
Elyana is a Hebrew name meaning "my God has answered" — from El (God) and ana (answered, heard), related to names like Eliana and Iliana. With 2,051 SSA records and a 2024 peak, E…
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Emberlyn
Emberlyn is a modern compound name — Ember (Old English for a small, glowing coal) combined with -lyn (a suffix from Welsh llyn , lake, or simply a feminizing ending). With about…
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Emeri
Emeri is a German-origin name: a variant of Emery, itself from the Germanic Amalric, meaning "work-power" or "home-strength", that takes an established gender-neutral surname name…
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Evangelina
Evangelina is a Greek-Latin compound — from euangelion (good news, gospel) with a Latin feminine suffix. It means, essentially, "bearer of good news" or "she who brings the gospel…
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Ewan
Ewan is the Scottish Gaelic form of John — from the earlier Eóghan , meaning "born of the yew tree" or possibly "born of a good family" depending on the etymological route — and i…
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Eyden
Eyden is an Irish-rooted name — a spelling variant of Aiden, from the Old Irish Áed meaning "fire" or "little fire," derived from the Celtic sun god Aed. With 766 SSA records and…
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Ezio
Ezio is an Italian name derived from the Greek aetos , meaning "eagle," a name with ancient Roman roots that was carried by the fifth-century general Flavius Aetius, often called…
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Giada
Giada is the Italian word for jade — the green gemstone — making it a gem name with Italian linguistic elegance rather than the plain English version. With 4,568 SSA records and a…
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Giancarlo
Giancarlo is an Italian compound name combining Giovanni (John, from the Hebrew Yochanan ("God is gracious") and Carlo (Charles, from the Germanic Karl) "free man"). Together it m…
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Gilberto
Gilberto is the Spanish and Italian form of Gilbert, a Germanic name from gisil (pledge) and beraht (bright) meaning "bright pledge", that has been a consistent presence in Latino…
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Glenn
Glenn is a Scottish Gaelic name from gleann , meaning "valley" or "narrow glen" — a landscape name that doubles as a given name with quiet strength. With 248,517 total SSA records…
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