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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Cielo
Cielo means sky in Spanish, and the name carries that image directly — open, luminous, high above the everyday. With 4,421 SSA records and a peak in 2024, Cielo is still in its ea…
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Coleson
Coleson is a modern elaboration of Cole — a name that has been generating variants for decades as parents look for ways to give a popular short name more formal length. Ranked #91…
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Colten
Colten peaked in 2009 and carries 16,116 SSA records. At rank #895, it's the alternate-spelling cousin of Colton — same sound, one letter different, slightly more unusual on the p…
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Curtis
Curtis peaked in 1962 and has 260,314 SSA records — making it one of the most historically substantial names in this batch, a name that had its golden era in mid-century America a…
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Dafne
Dafne is the Italian and Spanish spelling of the Greek myth's laurel nymph — and that single dropped letter does a surprising amount of work. It sheds the Anglicized layer from Da…
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Dane
Dane peaked in 1986 and carries 33,289 SSA records. At rank #880, it's a concise, confident name — four letters, one syllable, no ambiguity. It carries a Scandinavian origin and a…
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Darian
Darian peaked in 1994 and carries 16,782 SSA records. At rank #901, it's a variant of Darian/Darin/Darren/Dorian that sits at an interesting crossroads of Persian imperial history…
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Darwin
Darwin peaked in 1958 and holds rank #839 with 26,100 SSA records. It sits in the inventor-surname naming category alongside Edison and Tesla — names chosen not just for sound but…
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Derrick
Derrick peaked in 1980 and holds rank #818 with 145,055 SSA records — one of the largest total counts in its tier. This is a name with real American history: a generation defined…
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Dillon
Dillon peaked in 1992 and carries 64,964 SSA records. At rank #868, it's the quieter cousin in the Dylan/Dillon family, same sound, different letter, different implied reference p…
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Edison
Edison peaked in 2018 and holds rank #827 with 12,244 SSA records. It's a name in the sweet spot of the inventor-surname trend — the kind of name that feels smart and historical w…
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Eiden
Eiden sits at rank #806 with 1,570 SSA records and peaked in 2024, which tells you something useful: this name is still in its upward arc. It's a variant spelling of the Irish cla…
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Elia
Elia is one of the most elegant four-letter names in current American use: a name that functions simultaneously as the Italian/Spanish form of Elijah, a standalone Hebrew name mea…
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Elisabeth
Elisabeth is the Continental European spelling of Elizabeth — the S where most Americans expect a Z — and that single letter difference changes the name's entire cultural register…
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Elouise
Elouise is Eloise with an extra O, a small spelling variation that signals a specific aesthetic sensibility and puts a little more visual weight on the name's first syllable. At r…
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Emmeline
Emmeline is Emma with a Victorian flourish — the same root, a longer form, and a name that carries significant historical weight alongside its current aesthetic appeal. At rank 93…
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Everest
Everest peaked in 2022 and holds rank #845 with 2,739 SSA records. It's the world's highest mountain worn as a first name — ambitious, elemental, and increasingly popular as paren…
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Evren
Evren is a Turkish name meaning "universe" or "cosmos" — and that meaning alone puts it in an elite category of names whose definition is as expansive as a name can be. Ranked #97…
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Felipe
Felipe is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Philip — and it has been a steady presence in American naming for generations, peaking in 2001 with 31,577 total SSA records. Currentl…
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Heath
Heath peaked in 1974 and holds rank #848 with 29,268 SSA records. It's a name with clean Old English roots, a strong one-syllable presence, and an association with one of cinema's…
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