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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Koko
Koko ranks #314 with 373 entries and is one of the more sonically distinctive picks on the lower-mid chart. The repeated K-K shape gives it instant recall, and the gender-neutral…
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Lacey
Lacey ranks at #297 with 386 entries, and it sits in the soft-feminine register that has held a steady place on female pet charts for decades. The name reads warm and slightly del…
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Lady
Lady is the Disney name. With 1,667 entries at rank #45, she traces almost entirely to a single 1955 film — Lady and the Tramp — and the cultural anchor has been doing pet-naming…
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Leia
Leia ranks #253 with 443 entries and is a directly Star Wars-anchored pet name that pairs naturally with Chewie, Yoda, Luke, and Han in multi-pet households. Princess Leia from A…
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Lexi
Lexi ranks #88 with 1,121 entries and is another of the diminutives that has fully escaped its source. Owners pick Lexi directly, not as a shortened Alexandra or Alexis. The name…
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Lilly
Lilly ranks #115 with 945 entries and is the alternative spelling of Lily that pet owners disproportionately favor. The double-L gives the name a softer, more diminutive feel than…
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Little
Little ranks #223 with 490 entries — and unlike most pet names in this tier, it is a descriptor that became a name. Owners who pick Little are almost always pointing at the obviou…
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Logan
Logan ranks at #161 with 653 entries, and the name sits in the same human-crossover lane as Hunter or Mason. It reads as a mid-2000s baby name first, a pet name second, and the sp…
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Lucy
Lucy is the cat name hiding in a list of dog names. She ranks #8 in our overall pet data, but if you look at just the Domestic Shorthair cat population she jumps to #2 (behind onl…
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Luna
Here's a pattern that surprised me when I first ran the breed query: Luna is the #1 name for Domestic Shorthair cats and the #1 name for Labrador Retrievers in our NYC and Seattle…
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Mabel
Mabel ranks at #210 with 511 entries, and the name closes out the recovering-vintage cluster on this batch in style. Mabel was a top-30 SSA girls' name in the 1880s-1890s, vanishe…
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Mac
Mac ranks #320 with 367 entries and is one of the most efficient male pet names on the chart. One syllable, hard ending, instant recall. It is the kind of name owners pick when th…
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Maddie
Maddie ranks at #194 with 552 entries, and the name follows the same diminutive-as-given pattern that Izzy works a few ranks higher. Maddie is the everyday call name for Madeline,…
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Maisie
Maisie ranks at #306 with 379 entries, and it sits in the modern-vintage-female register that has reshaped pet naming over the last decade. The British-coded warmth of the name ha…
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Maple
Maple ranks #247 with 452 entries and rides the broader nature-name wave that has reshaped female pet naming over the past decade. Alongside Willow, Hazel, Ivy, and Olive, Maple b…
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Mason
Mason ranks #226 with 489 entries and is another full-human-name pet pick — the name has been a top-100 SSA male name through much of the 2000s and 2010s, which makes pet Masons p…
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Max
Max is a single closed syllable that ends in a hard consonant — three sound features that show up in almost every dog-training book's chapter on what makes a recallable name. He s…
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Maya
Maya ranks #94 with 1,044 entries, and it is one of the most genuinely cross-cultural names in the top 100. The same spelling carries serious weight in Sanskrit, Spanish, Hebrew,…
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Mika
Mika ranks at #403 with 307 entries, leaning female. The name is a cross-cultural diminutive — Japanese (where it can mean "beautiful fragrance" or "new moon" depending on kanji),…
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Mimi
Mimi ranks #133 with 798 entries and belongs to the soft-diminutive register that dominates female small-pet naming. The name is what owners pick when they want pure affection wit…
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