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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Elisa
Elisa carries 46,979 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 433, and reached its peak in 2012. The chart traces a gradual late-twentieth-century climb anchored in I…
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Emanuel
Emanuel is the spelling used across much of continental Europe and Latin America for what English speakers know as Emmanuel — the Hebrew name meaning "God is with us" that appears…
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Enrique
Enrique is Henry in Spanish: same Germanic root, same "home ruler" meaning, but with a rhythm and warmth that Henry can't match. The Spanish form peaked in the U.S. in 2000, which…
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Estella
Estella peaked in 1921, making it one of the oldest vintage names in this batch — older than Alma, older than Leona. Over 42,000 recorded uses across more than a century puts it i…
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Eve
Eve is three letters and carries the weight of the oldest story in Western tradition. With nearly 29,000 recorded births and a 2017 peak, it has proven that the most minimal names…
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Fabian
Fabian peaked in 2007 at rank 442 with 43,590 total American boys carrying the name, a 2000s peak that reflects steady cross-cultural use across Latin American, German, and Anglo-…
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Felicity
Felicity means "intense happiness" — not just contentment, but the kind of joy so complete it constitutes a moral condition. The Latin root felix doesn't just mean happy; it means…
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Fiona
Fiona carries 33,296 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 406, and reached its peak in 2017. The chart traces a steady late-twentieth-century climb followed by a…
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Garrett
Garrett peaked in 2000 and has been declining since — current rank #562 , with 135,222 total SSA bearers accumulated over decades of consistent use. That total is substantial, whi…
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Gracelynn
Gracelynn carries 12,550 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 427, and reached its peak in 2020. The chart shows minimal pre-2010 use, a fast climb through the la…
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Gregory
Gregory peaked in 1962 with over 711,000 total U.S. bearers, making it one of the most saturated male names of the 20th century. It's now rank #539, in the zone where Boomer-gener…
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Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn carries 123,533 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 393, with a 1953 peak. The chart traces a clean post-war arc: gradual early-20th-centu…
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Halle
Halle arrived in American baby naming primarily through one very famous bearer, and the association has been the engine driving it ever since. Halle Berry won the Academy Award fo…
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Hamza
Hamza is a name that carries extraordinary Islamic historical significance. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was the Prophet Muhammad's uncle and one of the earliest companions of Islam,…
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Hanna
Hanna is the original spelling — the Hebraic transliteration — of the name most Americans know as Hannah. The double-h form appears in the Hebrew Bible as Channah, the mother of t…
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Hector
Hector peaked in 2005 at rank 380 with 107,937 total American boys carrying the name, a substantial cumulative count anchored in steady use across Spanish-speaking American commun…
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Helen
Helen carries 1,023,527 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 424 today, and reached its peak in 1918 — making it one of only a handful of girl names to cross the…
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Hezekiah
Hezekiah is a name that demands commitment. Five syllables, distinctly biblical, impossible to shorten without losing something — and yet it peaked in SSA data in 2024, which mean…
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Ibrahim
Ibrahim peaked in 2024 at rank 359 with 16,966 American boys carrying the name, marking its highest position in the SSA rankings to date. The steady climb through the 2010s and 20…
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Jazlyn
Jazlyn is an American-coined name built from two elements that were having their moment in the 2000s: the Jaz- opening (jazz energy, Jasmine association) and the -lyn suffix (Cait…
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