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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Sullivan
Sullivan reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 339, with a total American count of 14,546 reflecting an Irish surname that has climbed steadily into mainstream first-name use…
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Timothy
Timothy sits at rank 208 in 2024, far below its 1959 peak. The total American count of 1,082,404 makes Timothy one of the most heavily-used boy names of the 20th century, and the…
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Tobias
Tobias peaked in 2016 at rank 270 and now sits at 280, with 28,093 cumulative American boys on SSA record. The chart line shows a steady climb across the 2000s and 2010s with a ge…
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Walter
Walter peaked all the way back in 1918 at rank 11, then drifted gently downward for the better part of a century, hit a low around 2010, and has been climbing back since. The curr…
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Warren
Warren peaked all the way back in 1921 at rank 27 and now sits at 262, more than a century later, on what looks like a gentle re-emergence. The total American count of 183,044 ref…
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Zane
Zane peaked in 2018 at rank 187 and now sits at 306, a gentle seven-year settling that has kept the name in stable mid-chart territory rather than collapsing the way many trend-dr…
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Addison
Addison entered the SSA top 100 for girls in 2005 and peaked at #11 in 2007. The trajectory is almost identical to a handful of other surname-as-first-name picks that crossed gend…
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Adeline
Adeline was given to fewer than 200 American girls in 1990. By 2016 it had climbed into the SSA top 100 and was being given to more than 4,000 girls a year. That's a roughly 20-fo…
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Aiden
In 2009 Aiden was the No. 9 boy name in America. Sixteen years later it sits at No. 47, and the story of those sixteen years is basically the story of how a single name spawned a…
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Alana
A 35-year top-200 band without a single defining cultural anchor is unusually steady for a Celtic-origin pick. Alana peaked at rank 119 in 2007 and has been settling slowly since,…
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Alice
Alice is the rare American girls' name that has spent more than 140 consecutive years inside the SSA top 200. The 1921 peak was actually Alice's third high water mark in American…
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Ana
Ana has 110,100 cumulative American girls on SSA record and a 1991 peak at rank 119. The current rank of 204 reflects a long, steady fade from that peak, but Ana has been on the U…
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Antonio
Antonio peaked in 1997 at rank 76 and has slid to 180 in 2024. Over 260,000 American boys have carried the name. The chart shape is the textbook profile of a Latin-coded classic t…
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Arianna
Arianna reached its peak at rank 47 in 2014 and now sits at 195, with about 102,800 cumulative American girls on SSA record. The arc fits a recognizable late-2000s and 2010s wave…
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Arya
Arya was vanishingly rare in American records before 2010 and reached rank 119 by 2019 — one of the steepest single-decade climbs in modern American naming. The current rank is 16…
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Aurora
Aurora reached its highest-ever SSA rank of #16 in 2024 — a name that was outside the top 1000 in 1990 and outside the top 200 as recently as 2010. The climb has been steady rathe…
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Ayla
Ayla is at its peak in 2024 at rank 69 — meaning the name is still climbing. The trajectory from outside the SSA top 1000 in 2010 to inside the top 70 today is one of the steepest…
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Barrett
Barrett peaked in 2020 at rank 175 and now sits at 186. The chart shape shows a name that climbed steadily through the 2010s on the surname-firstname wave and has now reached a st…
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Beau
Beau hit its all-time SSA peak in 2024 at rank 69. The name has been climbing since 2010 with no plateau, no false start, no reversal. That kind of clean trajectory is rare for na…
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Beckett
Beckett peaked in 2024 at rank 166. The name is still climbing, and the trajectory has been remarkably consistent for over a decade. Beckett is the literary-prep flagship of the s…
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