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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Destin
Destin has accumulated 6,013 births in the SSA record, split across both male and female registrations, and currently sits at rank 1,684. The numbers tell a story of a name that a…
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Fred
Fred has 343,576 births in the SSA record — a staggering historical total — and now sits at rank 1,686, a number that marks just how far this once-dominant name has receded. The s…
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Hansel
Hansel ranks at #1,661 in the SSA database with 3,529 recorded uses — a German name that most Americans know primarily from a fairy tale, but which functions as a legitimate given…
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Izayah
Izayah has 4,178 total uses in the SSA record at rank 1,676 — a phonetically respelled variant of Isaiah that has carved out its own small but steady niche among parents who want…
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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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Busby
Busby ranks #3367 with 25 recorded pets, landing exclusively on male dogs. It's a British surname of Norse origin that has never cracked mainstream pet naming — which is precisely…
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Coko
Coko ranks #3372 with 24 registered female pets. It's a phonetic spelling variant of Coco — one of the top pet names in the United States — that carves out its own small space thr…
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Deebo
Deebo ranks #3373 with 24 registered male pets. It's one of the clearest examples in the dataset of a name pulled directly from a single film — the 1995 cult classic Friday — and…
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Demon
Demon ranks #3374 with 24 registered male pets. It's an edge name — one of a cluster of dark or aggressive-sounding words that owners choose to project an image onto their dogs th…
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