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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Birdie
Birdie ranks at #385 with 320 entries, leaning female. This is a sweet, vintage-revival pick that has been climbing in both baby and pet naming over the past decade. Birdie reads…
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Bodhi
Bodhi ranks #312 with 373 entries and is one of the most identity-coded male pet names on the lower-mid chart. The name carries a Buddhist root meaning awakening or enlightenment,…
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Bonnie
Bonnie ranks at #170 with 604 entries, and the name has lived multiple lives in American naming. It was a top SSA girls' name in the 1940s, faded for two generations, and has held…
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Bowie
Bowie ranks #145 with 743 entries and is one of the most tribute-driven pet names in the rankings. The name's pet-side rise tracks David Bowie's death in January 2016 with unusual…
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Brady
Brady ranks #357 with 340 entries and is one of the most sports-coded male pet names on the lower-mid chart. The Tom Brady anchor is unusually direct for owners in NFL-following h…
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn ranks #76 with 1,261 entries, and it is one of the more interesting place-names in the pet-naming canon. The name reads as urban, slightly hip, and unmistakably American…
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Bruno
Bruno is the name your grandmother's neighbor had on a German Shepherd in 1965. With 1,848 entries at rank #39, the name reads as Old World, slightly heavy, and unmistakably mascu…
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Buddy
Buddy is the most aggressively functional name in our top 20. With 3,759 entries across NYC and Seattle, he sits at #12 — but unlike Bella or Luna, the rank isn't carried by any s…
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Cali
Cali ranks at #200 with 532 entries, and the name does double duty in a way that most names at this rank do not. It functions as a place-name shorthand for California, and it func…
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Casey
Casey ranks at #164 with 639 entries, and our data marks it as gender-neutral, which puts it in a small club at this rank tier. Most pet names lean clearly male or female by the t…
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Casper
Casper ranks at #182 with 577 entries, and the name has been carrying the friendly-ghost register since the 1939 cartoon and the 1995 film. It functions both as a literal-descript…
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Chase
Chase ranks at #103 with 974 entries, tied with Benny just above, and the two names could not be doing more different work. Chase is action-coded, athletic, and slightly all-Ameri…
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Chelsea
Chelsea ranks at #309 with 376 entries, a place-name-as-personal-name pick that has held its place on female pet charts for generations. The London neighborhood gave the name its…
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Chester
Chester ranks #135 with 790 entries and is one of the friendlier old-American male pet names in the rankings. The name reads as warm, slightly grandfatherly, and unpretentious. Ow…
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Chewie
Chewie ranks #250 with 447 entries and is one of the most directly Star Wars-anchored pet names in the chart. Chewbacca's nickname Chewie has been in continuous cultural circulati…
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Chewy
Chewy ranks #123 with 917 entries and is the kind of name that does double cultural duty. The Star Wars character Chewbacca is one anchor; the literal description of a puppy who c…
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Chloe
Chloe is one of the most evenly cat-and-dog names in our top 20. With 2,906 entries at rank #18, her breed and species distribution is striking: she ranks in the top 10 for Domest…
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Cinnamon
Cinnamon ranks #232 with 474 entries and is one of the cleanest visual-descriptor names in the chart — almost every pet Cinnamon has a warm reddish-brown coat that the name descri…
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Clyde
Clyde ranks #332 with 359 entries and is one of the most distinctively retro male pet names on the chart. The name carries a specific old-school American flavor — outlaw-adjacent,…
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Cookie
Cookie is what Oreo would be if owners committed less specifically to the visual. With 2,233 entries at rank #30, Cookie carries the same food-as-affection register but applies it…
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