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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Sierra
Sierra is a Spanish word meaning "mountain range" — specifically, the jagged profile of mountain peaks against a skyline. With over 100,000 recorded American births and a 1998 pea…
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Sincere
Sincere peaked in 2022 and holds at current rank #604 , with 9,642 total SSA bearers. It's a virtue name — a name drawn from an English abstract word rather than a personal name t…
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Skye
Skye is named after the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland — a place of basalt cliffs, ancient castles, and persistent mist that has become one of the most photograp…
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Soren
Soren peaked in 2020 and sits at current rank #571 , with 10,271 total SSA bearers. It's a Scandinavian name that has found a specific niche in American naming: parents who want s…
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Stephanie
Stephanie peaked in 1990 with over 744,000 recorded bearers — making it one of the most-given girls' names in American history. It currently sits at #533 , a long way from its pea…
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Stephen
Stephen peaked in 1952 at rank 377 with 863,904 total American boys carrying the name, a remarkably high cumulative count that places it among the most enduring biblical and histo…
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Sylas
Sylas is Silas with a y — a single-letter change that alters the visual character of a name without touching its sound, meaning, or history. For parents who like the sound of Sila…
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Sylvie
Sylvie carries 7,342 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 360, with a fresh 2024 peak. The chart traces a textbook recent revival: essentially zero A…
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Tadeo
Tadeo peaked in 2024 at rank 412 with 5,089 total American boys carrying the name, a contemporary high that reflects ongoing growth in Spanish-language traditional names. The tota…
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Titus
Titus peaked in 2015 at rank 383 with 25,883 total American boys carrying the name, a clear mid-2010s climb that fits the broader Latin-and-biblical revival alongside Atticus, Aug…
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Tyson
Tyson arrived in mainstream American naming around the 1970s and built most of its momentum during the 1980s and '90s — two decades when one name in boxing dominated every cultura…
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Wilder
Wilder peaked in 2021 at rank 392 with 7,447 American boys carrying the name, a remarkable climb for a word-and-surname name that has accelerated through the late 2010s and early…
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Wynter
Wynter carries 10,048 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 415, and reached its peak in 2021. The chart shows minimal use before 2010, a fast 2015-2021 climb, and…
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Yara
Yara is rare in the American naming landscape: a four-letter name with roots in Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese that sounds equally natural across multiple language contexts. With…
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Yusuf
Yusuf is Joseph — the same ancient name, carried through Arabic rather than Latin or Greek. For families who trace their heritage to the Arab world, Turkey, East Africa, or South…
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Zaire
Zaire is the name of a country that no longer exists — the Democratic Republic of Congo was called Zaire from 1971 to 1997 under Mobutu Sese Seko's regime — and that history gives…
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Abel
Abel peaked in 2015 at rank 220 and has held remarkably close to that position across the years since. The total American count of 64,483 is concentrated heavily in the post-2000…
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Adalyn
Created from old Germanic roots and a fashionable -lyn ending, Adalyn is a 21st-century coinage rather than a revival of any older form. The current rank of 219 reflects 29,800 cu…
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Adelyn
Adelyn carries 22,752 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 315, with a 2015 peak. The chart traces a 21st-century invention almost from scratch: virt…
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Adonis
Adonis hit its peak in 2023 at rank 206, where it currently sits in 2024. With 20,117 total American births recorded across SSA history, Adonis is a name whose modern American cli…
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