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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Aidan
Aidan peaked in 2003 at rank 39 and now sits at 312, a twenty-two-year drift that traces one of the steepest cohort trajectories of the early-2000s Irish-name boom. The total Amer…
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Ailani
Ailani carries 6,084 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 325, with a fresh 2024 peak. The chart traces one of the steepest recent climbs in the SSA…
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Aitana
Aitana is one of the most recent arrivals in the SSA top 250, with 8,360 cumulative American girls on record and a 2024 peak that is also the current rank of 211. Almost the entir…
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Alaina
Alaina has 49,200 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 212, with the 2011 peak placing it inside the top 200 for several years. The chart shape shows…
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Alessia
Alessia hit her American peak in 2024 at rank 281, with 9,238 cumulative girls on SSA record. The chart is almost entirely a recent climb: minimal use before 2010, a steady rise t…
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Alexandra
Alexandra has 244,100 cumulative American girls on SSA record across more than a century of charting, with a 1993 peak that placed it inside the top 50 for over a decade. The curr…
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Amari
Amari hit her American peak in 2024 at rank 296, with 20,473 cumulative girls on SSA record. The chart traces a steady climb across two decades: minimal use before 2000, gradual g…
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Angelo
Angelo peaked in 2007 at rank 198 and now sits at 286, a slow descent that mirrors the broader pattern of Italian boy names from the same window. The total American count of 84,97…
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Arabella
Arabella sits at rank 206 in the most recent SSA data, with about 26,500 cumulative American girls on record and a 2014 peak that came on the back of high-profile celebrity births…
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Archie
Archie peaked all the way back in 1918 at rank 144 and has only recently returned to chart visibility, now sitting at 333. The total American count of 55,109 reflects a name that…
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Ares
Ares hit a fresh peak in 2024 at rank 295, the most recent SSA cutoff, with 7,120 cumulative American boys on record. The chart line shows essentially zero pre-2010 use followed b…
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Ariyah
Ariyah carries 10,276 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 343, with a 2023 peak. The chart traces a textbook 21st-century invented-spelling arc: vir…
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Atticus
Atticus peaked in 2021 at rank 269 and now sits at 277, with 17,107 cumulative American boys on SSA record. The chart line shows essentially zero pre-2000 use followed by a sharp…
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Aurelia
Aurelia carries 17,373 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 334, with a fresh 2024 peak. The chart traces an unusually clean revival arc: minor early…
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Avery
Avery on the boys' chart sits at rank 259 with a 2014 peak, while on the girls' chart Avery has been a top-25 fixture for over a decade. The total American count of 65,711 boys is…
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Blair
Blair has 21,460 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 218, which is also its modern peak reached in 2024. The chart is climbing rather than settling,…
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Blake
Blake on the boys' chart sits at rank 265 in 2024, with a 2012 peak that reflected a long climb through the 1990s and 2000s. The total American count of 185,455 boys reflects a na…
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Bowen
Bowen reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 321, with a total American count of 11,889 placing it among the steadily climbing Welsh-surname names of the past decade. This is a…
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Brady
Brady peaked in 2007 at rank 65 and now sits at 309, a steady eighteen-year settling that has cooled the name from peak-era mainstream into mid-chart territory rather than collaps…
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Brian
Brian peaked in 1972 at rank 8 and now sits at 301, a fifty-three-year drift from top-tier to mid-chart that mirrors the broader trajectory of late-20th-century Anglo-Irish boy na…
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