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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Maximus
Maximus peaked in 2014 at rank 192 and now sits at 330, an eleven-year settling that has cooled the name from its post-Gladiator peak into mid-chart territory. The total American…
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Milani
Milani hit her American peak in 2022 at rank 278, with 10,575 cumulative girls on SSA record. The chart is essentially a 2010s creation: minimal use before 2010, a sharp climb thr…
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Molly
Born as a medieval pet form of Mary, Molly has spent the last 400 years as a stand-alone given name. The American chart shows 174,500 cumulative bearers, a 1991 peak inside the to…
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Muhammad
Muhammad hit its peak in 2024 at rank 245, with 20,478 total American uses recorded. The most-recent peak shows a name in active climb in American records. Muhammad is one of the…
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Navy
Navy carries 4,968 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 337, with a fresh 2024 peak. The chart traces one of the most dramatic recent emergence stori…
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Nico
Nico hit its peak in 2024 at rank 213, which is the rare case where the most recent year is the highest the name has charted. The total American count of 19,214 is small relative…
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Nicole
Nicole carries 593,691 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 318, with a 1985 peak that placed her firmly inside the top 10. The chart shows one of th…
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Noelle
Originally reserved for Christmas-week births in French Catholic households, Noelle has spent the past two decades broadening into a full-calendar pick. The current rank of 215 fo…
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Oscar
Oscar peaked in 2006 at rank 217 and has since held remarkably close to that position. The total American count of 211,463 places Oscar among solidly-used 20th-century names. The…
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Otto
Otto hit a fresh peak in 2024 at rank 274, the most recent SSA cutoff, with 38,669 cumulative American boys on record. Otto is one of the most distinctive arcs in the modern data:…
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Rafael
Rafael peaked in 2006 at rank 222 and now sits at the same number, with 87,725 total American births recorded. The chart line shows a name in long, gradual decline from its peak,…
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Regina
Regina carries 183,476 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 340, with a deep historical peak in 1962. The chart shows the slow erosion of a once-main…
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Rhys
Rhys reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 354, with a total American count of 13,547 reflecting a Welsh name that has climbed steadily into mainstream American visibility ove…
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River
River on the girls' chart sits at rank 214, with 18,250 cumulative American girls on SSA record and a 2022 peak. The boys' chart for River has climbed faster and higher, but the g…
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Romeo
Romeo hit a fresh peak in 2024 at rank 283, the most recent SSA cutoff, with 25,728 cumulative American boys on record. The chart line shows steady climbing across the past two de…
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Rosie
Rosie carries 84,454 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 311, with a deep historical peak in 1927. The chart shape is unusual: strong early-20th-cen…
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Rowan
Rowan carries 20,976 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 266, with a 2018 peak that placed her inside the top 250 for the first time. The female tra…
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Ryleigh
Ryleigh carries 34,242 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 302, with a 2019 peak that placed her inside the top 250. The chart shows a sharp 2000s a…
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Shiloh
Shiloh reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 336, with a total American count of 8,183 reflecting a Hebrew place-name that has climbed steadily from rare to mainstream over th…
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Stevie
Two singer-songwriters, one borrowed nickname, and a fresh 2024 peak. Stevie now sits at rank 209 with 16,200 cumulative American girls on SSA record, and the chart shape is unusu…
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