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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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Alison
Alison has been in continuous use in England since the medieval period, which makes it one of the longer-running girl names in the English-speaking world. It peaked in America in…
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Alisson
Alisson peaked in 2024 and currently holds #551 , with just over 6,400 recorded bearers. It's a double-S spelling of Allison — a Germanic name with medieval French transmission —…
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Alivia
Alivia carries 34,158 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 396, with a 2008 peak. The chart traces a clean millennium-era arc: essentially zero pre-1…
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Alonzo
Alonzo is the kind of name that sounds like it belongs on a jazz musician or a point guard — and it has, often. That association with a certain Black American cultural tradition i…
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Alyssa
Alyssa carries 313,912 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 399, with a 1999 peak. The chart traces a textbook millennial arc: minimal pre-1980 prese…
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Anakin
Anakin peaked in 2023 and holds at current rank #592 , with 5,410 total SSA bearers. It is, without any ambiguity, a Star Wars name — George Lucas invented it for his 1977 prequel…
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Anaya
Anaya carries 17,080 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 405, with a 2016 peak. The chart traces a clean modern climb: minimal pre-2005 presence, sh…
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Anderson
Anderson peaked in 2012 at the height of the surname-as-first-name wave and now sits at rank 356, a mid-tier position with 33,090 American boys carrying the name. The trajectory t…
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Angel
Angel is a Greek word (angelos, meaning "messenger") that became a Latin theological term, then an English word, and finally a given name used across multiple cultures and both ge…
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Annalise
Annalise is the kind of compound name that makes linguists happy: Anna (Hebrew, "grace") fused with Lise (the French and German diminutive of Elizabeth, meaning "pledged to God").…
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Ariya
Ariya is one of those names that looks freshly invented but has roots going back thousands of years. The Sanskrit origin connects it to the concept of nobility and honor — and the…
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Arlette
Arlette is a name with a medieval French pedigree that most Americans have never encountered — and that obscurity is exactly what makes it interesting in 2025. With under 7,500 re…
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Armani
Armani peaked in 2022 and currently holds #527 , with about 11,500 recorded bearers. It's a name that most people immediately associate with a fashion house — Giorgio Armani's lux…
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Arturo
Arturo peaked in 2005 and sits at current rank #577 , with 56,633 total SSA bearers. It's the Spanish and Italian form of Arthur — a name with one of the most contested etymologie…
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Augustine
Augustine is a name that arrives with 1,600 years of philosophical and theological weight, and a 2024 SSA peak, suggesting parents are actively choosing it right now. The combinat…
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Avianna
Avianna peaked in 2021 and currently holds #554 , with just over 9,000 recorded bearers. It's a creative elaboration built on the Latin avis (bird) — adding the feminine -anna suf…
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Ayaan
Ayaan carries one of the more beautiful meanings in Arabic naming: "gift of God" or, in some interpretations, "God's grace in time" — with a sense of the name meaning something li…
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Aylani
Aylani is one of the newest names in this rankings tier — it peaked in 2024 and has fewer than 1,800 recorded births total, which makes it genuinely rare. The Hawaiian origin puts…
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Bo
Bo peaked in 2024 at rank 451 with 14,282 total American boys carrying the name, a contemporary high that reflects the broader minimal-name and one-syllable revival of the 2020s.…
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Brooklynn
Brooklynn is the place-name spelling of Brooklyn, with double-n added to signal that this is a personal name rather than an address. It peaked in 2011, during the height of Brookl…
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