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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Ben
Ben peaked in 1918, ranks #801, and has 85,049 SSA records. It's one of the most economical names in English — three letters, one syllable, and a history of independent use that m…
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Bode
Bode peaked in 2024, ranks #804, and has 4,410 SSA records. It's a name with Old Norse roots and a modern American alpine sports association that together make it feel simultaneou…
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Cannon
Cannon peaked in 2021, ranks #765, and has 10,602 SSA records. It belongs to the strong-object word-name tradition — names that derive from tools, weapons, or powerful natural for…
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Casen
Casen peaked in 2014, ranks #792, and has 6,339 SSA records. It belongs to the Cason/Casen/Cayson/Kaison spelling cluster — a family of phonetically identical names that emerged f…
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Cayson
Cayson peaked in 2016, ranks #762, and has 6,068 SSA records. It's an American-invented spelling variant in the Cason/Casen/Kayson cluster — a name that doesn't trace to a specifi…
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Celia
Celia peaked in 1915 and holds 56,289 SSA records — an ancient Latin name with Italian and Spanish warmth, sitting at rank 734. It's the kind of name that feels like it was always…
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Charleigh
Charleigh is one of those names where the spelling does the heavy lifting — it's the same sound as Charlie, a name that has been climbing steadily for girls, but the -leigh ending…
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Chelsea
Chelsea peaked in 1992 and has 162,562 SSA records — a name that was everywhere in the early 1990s, tied to a specific cultural moment in American life, and now sitting at rank 78…
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Conner
Conner peaked in 2005, ranks #783, and has 56,111 SSA records. It's the alternative spelling of Connor — one of the most successful Irish names in American naming history — with a…
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Damir
Damir peaked in 2024, ranks #795, and has 3,208 SSA records. It's a South Slavic name — common in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia — built from the same etymological roots as Slavic names…
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Dennis
Dennis peaked in 1952, has 620,615 SSA bearers, and currently ranks #708: making it one of the most historically common names in American records that almost no parent is choosing…
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Denver
Denver is a place name that has moved to the first-name register with the easy confidence of someone who has always belonged there. Ranked 775 with 3,909 SSA records and a peak in…
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Dexter
Dexter peaked in 2012, ranks #720, and has 36,186 SSA bearers. The name carries a specific cultural baggage from Showtime's serial killer drama, yet parents kept choosing it throu…
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Emerald
Emerald reached its peak in 2024 with 9,146 SSA records — a gemstone name arriving just as Ruby and Pearl have fully normalized and parents are ready to move one color over. At ra…
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Evander
Evander peaked in 2021, ranks #771, and has just 3,808 SSA records — one of the genuinely rare names in this ranking tier, and one with an unusually deep historical pedigree for s…
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Harry
Harry peaked in 1918, ranks #777 today, and carries 423,531 SSA records — the kind of number that tells you this name was once used by enormous swaths of the American population.…
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Inaya
Inaya is an Arabic name meaning care, concern, or solicitude — the kind of name that carries a precise emotional meaning rather than a grand abstract one. Ranked 760 with 3,102 SS…
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Jahmir
Jahmir peaked in 2024, ranks #774, and has 3,343 SSA records. It's a name that carries Arabic roots, an East African and African-American pronunciation tradition, and a sound that…
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Jamie
Jamie has 270,619 SSA records and peaked in 1977 — one of the most successful gender-neutral names in American history, now sitting at rank 716 for girls after decades of being cl…
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Jefferson
Jefferson peaked in 2009, ranks #711, and has 24,141 SSA bearers. It's a surname turned given name with a specific American flavor — one that carries founding-era resonance withou…
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