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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Karl
Karl has 100,733 births in the SSA record — a century-spanning total that puts it in genuine historical company — and now sits at rank 1,688. The name's long arc from European sta…
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Kobi
Kobi has 1,911 total SSA uses at rank 1,677 — a Hebrew-origin name that functions as both a standalone given name and a variant of Kobe, carrying the weight of one of basketball's…
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Lotus
Lotus sits at rank #1663 with 2,653 total births, but that relatively modest count understates the heat around this name right now. Lotus is actively climbing — it belongs to the…
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Lucero
Lucero comes in at rank #1664 with 7,587 total births — a name that has been quietly essential in Latino communities across the American Southwest and beyond for generations. It i…
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Myron
Myron has 45,268 births in the SSA record and sits at rank 1,690 — a name with an ancient Greek pedigree, a mid-century American peak, and the kind of quiet dignity that is making…
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Riggins
Riggins peaked in 2023. Eight hundred and ninety-three total SSA births, a boys' rank of #1,678, and a peak year that is essentially right now. That is a name that is arriving, no…
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Rivky
Rivky has 2,230 total uses in the SSA data at rank 1,676 — a Yiddish diminutive of Rebecca that appears almost exclusively within Ashkenazi Jewish communities, functioning as a fu…
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Saphira
Saphira sits at rank 1,667 in the SSA data with 2,230 total recorded uses — a name that nearly all parents associate with a single, unmistakable source. Its trajectory is almost e…
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Shilo
Shilo has 1,822 total recorded uses in the SSA data at rank 1,669 — a spelling variant of a name that carries one of the most layered backstories in the Hebrew biblical tradition,…
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Sire
Sire entered the SSA charts with a specific moment attached to it. The name has 1,594 total births and peaked in 2022, which puts its main surge squarely in the years following Be…
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Steve
Steve has 241,122 births in the SSA record — a massive historical total — and now sits at rank 1,692, a position that marks just how completely this once-ubiquitous name has stepp…
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Tyree
Tyree has 14,747 total SSA uses at rank 1,670 — a name with a fascinating double origin that few parents know about, and one whose use in the United States carries a distinct cult…
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Aarush
Aarush is a Sanskrit name meaning "first ray of sun" or "the first light of dawn" — a name built around the image of the sun's initial touch on a new day. With 2,961 total SSA rec…
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Alakai
Alakai is a Hawaiian name meaning "to lead" or "guide" — from the Hawaiian verb alaka'i , combining ala (path, way) and ka'i (to lead, to guide). With 820 total SSA records and a…
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Alissa
Alissa is a Germanic variant of the name rooted in the Old High German Adalheidis, nobility and kind, which gave rise to Alice, Alicia, Alissa, and Alyssa. It peaked in 1998 with…
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Bentlee
Bentlee is a creative respelling of Bentley — itself an Old English place-name meaning "meadow of bent grass" from beonet (bent grass) and leah (clearing). With 4,107 total SSA re…
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Brynnlee
Brynnlee combines Brynn, the Welsh word for "hill", with the Lee suffix, creating a compound name with Welsh roots and an American sensibility. It peaked in 2021 with 1,841 total…
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Davon
Davon is an American original — a creative fusion of David and Devon, or simply a phonetic variation that emerged from the rich naming creativity of African American communities i…
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Dixie
Dixie peaked in 1938 and has 44,489 SSA records, a substantial mid-century American name that carries both Southern regional identity and the peppy energy of a Depression-era nick…
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Elissa
Elissa is a Greek name, a variant of Elisa and ultimately of Elizabeth — that carried real momentum in the late 1970s, peaking in 1979. It sits close enough to Alyssa and Melissa…
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