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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Kade
Kade reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 345, with a total American count of 22,339 reflecting a one-syllable name that has climbed steadily through the past two decades. Th…
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Kaden
Kaden peaked in 2006 at rank 100 and now sits at 304, a steady descent across two decades that mirrors the broader pattern of K-spelled and constructed boy names from the 2000s wa…
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Kailani
Kailani hit her American peak in 2022 at rank 275, with 11,553 cumulative girls on SSA record. The chart is almost entirely a post-2010 story: minimal use before then, a sharp cli…
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Kairo
Kairo peaked in 2023 at rank 238 and now sits there, with 9,637 total American uses recorded. The combination of recent peak and small cumulative count places Kairo among the boy…
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Kaylee
Kaylee has 139,200 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 220, well below the 2009 peak that placed it inside the top 50. The chart shape is a textbook…
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King
King peaked in 2017 at rank 219 and now sits at 342, an eight-year settling that has cooled the name from peak-era mainstream into mid-chart territory. The total American count of…
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Kohen
Kohen reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 318, with a total American count of 7,256 placing it among the genuinely new arrivals on the SSA boys' chart. This is a name that h…
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Leia
Leia hit her American peak in 2023 at rank 290, with 17,736 cumulative girls on SSA record. The chart traces the most pop-culture-driven trajectory of any modern girl name in acti…
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Lena
Lena carries 145,356 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 263, with a 1917 peak that placed her solidly inside the top 100 during the early 20th cent…
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Lila
Three letters, one syllable, and at least three competing source languages. Lila currently sits at rank 207 with 74,800 cumulative American girls on SSA record, just below the 201…
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Londyn
Londyn carries 26,431 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 305, with a 2014 peak that placed her inside the top 250. The chart is essentially a 21st-…
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Louis
Louis sits at rank 236 in 2024, with a 1921 peak that places the name's heyday a full century behind the current chart position. The total American count of 405,059 reflects a nam…
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Luciano
Luciano reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 348, with a total American count of 16,504 reflecting an Italian and Spanish name that has climbed steadily through the past deca…
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Lukas
Lukas with a K hit a fresh peak in 2019 at rank 261 and now sits at 268, with the chart line essentially flat across the past five years. The total American count of 42,878 reflec…
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Mabel
Mabel has 140,750 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 222, with a 1915 peak that placed it inside the top 20. The chart shape is unusual: deep early…
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Maddox
Maddox peaked in 2017 at rank 215 and now sits at the same number, suggesting a stable plateau rather than continued decline. The total American count of 45,438 is concentrated al…
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Malani
Malani carries 6,283 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 331, with a fresh 2024 peak. The chart traces one of the cleanest recent emergence stories…
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Manuel
Manuel peaked in 2005 at rank 150 and now sits at 351, a twenty-year drift that mirrors the broader settling pattern of traditional Spanish-language boys' names in American record…
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Marcus
Marcus peaked in 1984 at rank 41 and now sits at 256, a long, slow descent over four decades that has not actually felt like decline because the chart line stays smooth and never…
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Maximiliano
Maximiliano peaked in 2019 at rank 286 and now sits at 298, with 22,760 cumulative American boys on SSA record. The chart line shows a steady climb across the 2000s and 2010s as H…
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