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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Brynn
Brynn carries 29,046 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 384, with a 2011 peak. The chart traces a clean millennial-era arc: essentially zero pre-19…
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Cali
Cali works on two levels simultaneously: it's a nickname for Calista or Callista (from the Greek kallista, meaning "most beautiful") and it's the universally understood shorthand…
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Camryn
Camryn carries 30,315 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 454, and reached its peak in 1999. The chart shows minimal pre-1990 use, a fast late-1990s climb that a…
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Capri
Capri is a place name — the island in the Bay of Naples — that has been crossing into personal name territory with growing confidence. With nearly 6,000 recorded births and a 2024…
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Chance
Chance peaked in 1996 at rank 418 with 53,890 total American boys carrying the name, a 1990s-coded high that has settled into a quieter contemporary slot. The trajectory tracks th…
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Charli
Charli peaked in 2021 and currently holds #524 , with just over 11,000 recorded bearers. It's the stripped-down, -i-ending version of Charlie — a spelling choice that lands the na…
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Chaya
Chaya is a Hebrew name meaning "life" — and it carries that meaning with a directness that most names can't match. With over 15,000 recorded births and a 2022 peak, it has found a…
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Cillian
Cillian went from being a name most Americans had never seen spelled correctly to a name on every naming conversation list — and the journey happened in roughly three years. Cilli…
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Clementine
Clementine peaked in 2024, making it one of the few names in this batch that is genuinely at the height of its American popularity right now. Parents choosing Clementine today are…
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Conrad
Conrad hit its SSA peak in 2024 — which means this Germanic classic is currently at the height of its modern revival. After decades of relative quiet, parents are rediscovering a…
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Damon
Damon peaked in 1976 at rank 454 with 68,226 total American boys carrying the name, a substantial cumulative count rooted in mid-1970s Greek-name adoption. The trajectory shows st…
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Demi
Demi carries 14,062 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 451, and reached its peak in 2020. The chart shows minimal pre-1990 use, a small 1990s blip aligned with…
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Desmond
Desmond peaked in 1992 at rank 368 with 39,186 American boys carrying the name, a steady early-1990s position that has held remarkably stable across the past three decades. The tr…
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Devin
Devin peaked in 1998. It belongs to the same naming generation as Dylan, Brendan, and Connor — Irish-origin names that flooded American birth records through the 1990s on the back…
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Eden
Eden is one of the few names that works as a place, a state of being, and a given name simultaneously — and it does all three without straining. It carries the weight of the world…
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Edgar
Edgar is a name that has outlasted empires. It was in use before the Norman Conquest, carried by an Anglo-Saxon king of England in the 10th century, and it's still appearing on bi…
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Eduardo
Eduardo peaked in 2001 at rank 374 with 109,465 total American boys carrying the name, a substantial cumulative count that reflects steady use across Spanish-speaking American com…
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Eileen
Eileen peaked in 1947 and has nearly 190,000 recorded American births — firmly in the grandmother-revival tier, and in 2025, genuinely ripe for reconsideration. The Irish origin g…
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Elaine
Elaine carries 261,872 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 369, with a 1947 peak. The chart traces a clean post-war arc: gradual early-20th-century…
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Eliel
Eliel is peaking right now — 2024 peak, current rank #583 , with just 4,418 total SSA bearers. That small total combined with a current peak means this name is genuinely on the ri…
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