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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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Ben Rice Is Outslugging Aaron Judge — And His Name Is Having a Moment Too
Ben Rice leads MLB with a 1.214 OPS in May 2026. His name tells its own story: Ben as a standalone has climbed from rank 286 to 134 in the SSA data over 15 years.
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Aariv
Aariv is a modern Hebrew name meaning "pleasant" or "agreeable," from the root arev or areev — a word that in contemporary Hebrew carries connotations of sweetness, pleasantness,…
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Abril
Abril is the Spanish word for April — the month — used directly as a given name in Latin American naming tradition. With about 9,100 SSA records and a peak in 2007, it belongs to…
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Achilles
Achilles is an ancient Greek name of uncertain etymology — possibilities include a connection to achos (grief, pain) + laos (people), suggesting "one whose people have grief," tho…
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Adrien
Adrien is the French form of Adrian — a name from Hadria, the ancient city that gave the Adriatic Sea its name. Ranked #1192 with its peak in 2009 and over 9,600 total uses, it's…
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Agnes
Agnes peaked in 1918 — the same year as Winifred and Edna — and has spent more than a century in slow decline to rank 1063. But Agnes is one of the vintage names furthest along th…
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Aiyana
Aiyana is a name from Indigenous North American tradition, most closely associated with Ojibwe meaning "forever flowering" or "eternal bloom." With nearly 9,700 SSA records and a…
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Alaric
Alaric is the name of the Visigoth king who sacked Rome in 410 AD, and it carries that force into every conversation today. Ranked #1109 with a peak in 2020, this Germanic name is…
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Alba
Alba is a Latin name meaning "white" or "dawn" — clean, two syllables, with an elegant simplicity that works across European languages without modification. With about 7,292 SSA r…
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Amado
Amado is a Spanish and Portuguese name meaning "beloved" or "loved one" — from the Latin amatus , past participle of amare , to love. Ranked #1245 with a peak in 2023 and around 4…
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Amar
Amar is an Arabic name meaning "long life" or "to live long" — from the Semitic root ʿamara , meaning to build, inhabit, or prosper. In Sanskrit, a homophonous name means "immorta…
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Andreas
Andreas is the Greek form of Andrew — from the Greek andreios meaning "manly" or "courageous," derived from aner (man) — and serves as the version of the name used across Greece,…
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Angeline
Angeline is the elaborate French form of Angel — a Greek-via-Latin name meaning "messenger" — dressed up with the -ine suffix that gives it both a formal French feeling and a long…
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Angelique
Angelique is Angela in evening wear. The French form of the name, it carries the same angelic meaning — from Latin angelicus , relating to angels — but with a sophistication that…
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Ann
Ann is one of the most load-bearing names in Western history. With over 470,000 SSA records and a peak in 1957, it carried an entire generation and quietly retreated as naming tas…
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Araya
Araya sits at the intersection of Hebrew heritage and pure phonetic pleasure — a name that sounds like it was chosen for how it feels in the mouth before any meaning was attached.…
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Archibald
Archibald peaked in 2024, which is a remarkable statement for a name that sounds like it belongs in a Victorian novel. Ranked #1174, it's showing up precisely because parents have…
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Arden
Arden is a name that feels like a clearing in a forest — which is almost exactly what it means. From Old English ærn (dwelling) or the Celtic word for a high place, it arrives wit…
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Arham
Arham is an Arabic name meaning "most merciful" or "most compassionate" — a superlative form of rahim (merciful), which is also one of the 99 names of God in Islamic tradition ( A…
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Ariela
Ariela is the Hebrew spelling of a name meaning "lion of God" — the same root as Ariel, Ariella, and Arielle, but in the form used in Israeli and broader Sephardic Jewish communit…
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