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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Persephone
Persephone peaked in 2022 and holds 4,583 SSA records. A Greek mythological name that has crossed from "too intense" to "aspirational" in the space of a decade. At rank 737, it's…
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Ramona
Ramona peaked in 1928 and has 70,496 SSA records — a genuinely old name with a specific mid-century American identity, currently ranked 772. It's the kind of name that lived throu…
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Raylan
Raylan peaked in 2015, ranks #717, and has 6,540 SSA bearers. It's an American invention, no ancient etymology, no medieval saint,and almost certainly owes its existence to one sp…
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Rivka
Rivka has 9,554 SSA records and peaked in 2024, making it one of the Hebrew names on an upward climb rather than a revival. It's gaining new parents, not just returning to a nosta…
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Roger
Roger peaked in 1953, has 441,840 SSA bearers, and ranks #750 today. Along with Dennis, Larry, and Gary, it's one of the quintessential mid-20th century American male names: so th…
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Royalty
Royalty peaked in 2019 and holds 6,871 SSA records — a word name in the aspirational tradition, sitting at rank 713. It's part of a naming movement that includes Majesty, Dynasty,…
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Ryland
Ryland peaked in 2013, ranks #729, and has 12,781 SSA bearers. It's a surname turned given name with an agricultural English origin, and it arrived in the American naming mainstre…
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Seraphina
Seraphina is one of the most dramatically beautiful names on the current American charts — five syllables, rooted in Hebrew angelology, currently ranked 778 with 3,602 SSA records…
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Stormi
Stormi is a name that arrived in American awareness in February 2018, when Kylie Jenner announced that her daughter's name was Stormi Webster. It's now ranked 790 with 3,889 SSA r…
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Teo
Teo peaked in 2024, ranks #759, and has just 2,668 SSA records — which tells you this name is at the very beginning of its American story. Short, vowel-forward, and instantly pron…
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Trey
Trey peaked in 1999, ranks #789, and has 40,196 SSA records. It's a Middle English name derived from the word for "three" — originally a nickname for a third-born son or a man nam…
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Valentin
Valentin peaked in 2007, ranks #747, and has 11,304 SSA bearers. It's the European continental form of Valentine, used across France, Spain, Eastern Europe, and Latin America,and…
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Valery
Valery is the French masculine spelling applied to girls in American use — a name that sits between the well-established Valerie and the more explicitly feminine Valeria, currentl…
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Wes
Wes peaked in 2024, ranks #744, and has 6,408 SSA bearers. It's a name that functions both as a standalone given name and as the natural short form of Wesley or Weston: and parent…
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Westin
Westin peaked in 2023, ranks #726, and has 7,015 SSA bearers. It's an elaborated form of the directional name Weston, adding an -in suffix that gives it a slightly more contempora…
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Westyn
Westyn peaked in 2024, ranks #786, and has 2,741 SSA records. It's a phonetic respelling of Weston — itself a classic Old English place name — with the -yn ending that has become…
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Zaylee
Zaylee is a name with an unknown formal etymology — one of those American invented names that emerged from the combination of fashionable sounds rather than a traceable linguistic…
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Zeke
Zeke peaked in 2022, ranks #732, and has 8,055 SSA bearers. It's the short form of Ezekiel, one of the Hebrew Bible's major prophets,registered as a standalone given name by paren…
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Albert
Albert peaked in 1921 but never fully disappeared — SSA records show 491,391 total bearers, and the name currently sits at rank #606 . That's the shape of a classic in slow recove…
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Aleena
Aleena peaked in 2015 and holds 12,096 SSA records — an Arabic -origin name meaning "soft" or "delicate" that has found consistent use across multiple communities in the United St…
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