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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Hanna
Hanna is the original spelling — the Hebraic transliteration — of the name most Americans know as Hannah. The double-h form appears in the Hebrew Bible as Channah, the mother of t…
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Hector
Hector peaked in 2005 at rank 380 with 107,937 total American boys carrying the name, a substantial cumulative count anchored in steady use across Spanish-speaking American commun…
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Helen
Helen carries 1,023,527 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 424 today, and reached its peak in 1918 — making it one of only a handful of girl names to cross the…
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Hezekiah
Hezekiah is a name that demands commitment. Five syllables, distinctly biblical, impossible to shorten without losing something — and yet it peaked in SSA data in 2024, which mean…
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Ibrahim
Ibrahim peaked in 2024 at rank 359 with 16,966 American boys carrying the name, marking its highest position in the SSA rankings to date. The steady climb through the 2010s and 20…
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Jazlyn
Jazlyn is an American-coined name built from two elements that were having their moment in the 2000s: the Jaz- opening (jazz energy, Jasmine association) and the -lyn suffix (Cait…
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Jimena
Jimena peaked in 2016 and currently holds #536 , with just over 16,500 recorded bearers. It's the Spanish form of Ximena — which is itself the Spanish form of an older Iberian or…
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Johan
Johan is the Scandinavian and Dutch form of John — and that single-vowel difference from Johann (the German form) is more significant than it looks. Johan reads lean and Nordic; J…
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Jonas
Jonas is a name that has been quietly doing something interesting for the past two decades: aging down. Once associated with the biblical prophet, it now skews unmistakably young…
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Jordan
Jordan peaked for girls in 1997 and currently holds #539 , with over 135,000 female recorded bearers. It's one of the clearest examples in American naming of a name that crossed d…
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Joy
Joy carries 139,933 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 442, and reached its peak in 1957. The chart traces a sharp post-WWII climb, a sustained 1955-1960 high,…
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Julio
Julio peaked in 1990 and holds at current rank #598 , with 63,334 total SSA bearers accumulated over decades of consistent use. It's one of the core traditional Spanish-origin nam…
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Julius
Julius peaked in 1918 at rank 389 with 83,851 total American boys carrying the name, a clear early-twentieth-century position that has drifted into vintage-classic territory. Rece…
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Kaizen
Before it became a baby name, Kaizen was a management philosophy. The Japanese concept of continuous improvement was popularized in post-war manufacturing and later embraced globa…
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Kasen
Kasen is a name that lives in the American sound-construction tradition — built from familiar phonetic components to create something that sounds both fresh and recognizable. It p…
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Kashton
Kashton peaked in 2022 at rank 395 with 6,848 American boys carrying the name, a recent climb that fits cleanly into the K-spelling and -ton ending wave alongside Kingston, Easton…
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Kason
Kason is an American coinage that peaked in 2019 and sits at current rank #568 , with 14,415 total SSA bearers. It belongs to the family of K-initial name inventions that spread t…
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Katalina
Katalina carries 8,002 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 439, and reached its peak in 2024 — a fresh contemporary high. The chart shows minimal pre-2010 use, g…
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Kendrick
Kendrick entered the top 500 in the early 2000s and peaked in 2013 — the same year a rapper from Compton released good kid, m.A.A.d city , one of the most critically acclaimed hip…
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Kenzo
Kenzo peaked in 2022 and holds at current rank #586 , with just 4,242 total SSA bearers. It's a Japanese name that has traveled far from its origin — picked up partly through fash…
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