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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Walker
Walker peaked in 2022 at rank 73 and has held within ten positions since. That's notable because Walker hasn't had a dominant cultural moment in the last five years — no major fil…
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Wesley
Wesley peaked in 2024. Not 1924, not in some Victorian revival window — last year. That's an unusual data point for a name with this much heritage; most Old English surname-firsts…
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Willow
Willow peaked in 2021 at No. 38, the year a particular American naming aesthetic crystallised. Cottagecore was at its peak on TikTok, parents were thinking about hand-thrown ceram…
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Wrenley
Few names in the current SSA top 200 are this newly invented. Wrenley first appeared in records around 2014 and reached rank 149 by 2024. The form first appeared in records around…
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Zoey
Zoey is the alternate-spelling version of Zoe that overtook its parent form in American usage during the 2000s. The 2012 peak of Zoey came one year after the I-spelling Zoe peaked…
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