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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Jimena
Jimena peaked in 2016 and currently holds #536 , with just over 16,500 recorded bearers. It's the Spanish form of Ximena — which is itself the Spanish form of an older Iberian or…
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Johan
Johan is the Scandinavian and Dutch form of John — and that single-vowel difference from Johann (the German form) is more significant than it looks. Johan reads lean and Nordic; J…
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Jonas
Jonas is a name that has been quietly doing something interesting for the past two decades: aging down. Once associated with the biblical prophet, it now skews unmistakably young…
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Jordan
Jordan peaked for girls in 1997 and currently holds #539 , with over 135,000 female recorded bearers. It's one of the clearest examples in American naming of a name that crossed d…
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Joy
Joy carries 139,933 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 442, and reached its peak in 1957. The chart traces a sharp post-WWII climb, a sustained 1955-1960 high,…
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Julio
Julio peaked in 1990 and holds at current rank #598 , with 63,334 total SSA bearers accumulated over decades of consistent use. It's one of the core traditional Spanish-origin nam…
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Julius
Julius peaked in 1918 at rank 389 with 83,851 total American boys carrying the name, a clear early-twentieth-century position that has drifted into vintage-classic territory. Rece…
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Kaizen
Before it became a baby name, Kaizen was a management philosophy. The Japanese concept of continuous improvement was popularized in post-war manufacturing and later embraced globa…
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Kasen
Kasen is a name that lives in the American sound-construction tradition — built from familiar phonetic components to create something that sounds both fresh and recognizable. It p…
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Kashton
Kashton peaked in 2022 at rank 395 with 6,848 American boys carrying the name, a recent climb that fits cleanly into the K-spelling and -ton ending wave alongside Kingston, Easton…
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Kason
Kason is an American coinage that peaked in 2019 and sits at current rank #568 , with 14,415 total SSA bearers. It belongs to the family of K-initial name inventions that spread t…
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Katalina
Katalina carries 8,002 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 439, and reached its peak in 2024 — a fresh contemporary high. The chart shows minimal pre-2010 use, g…
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Kendrick
Kendrick entered the top 500 in the early 2000s and peaked in 2013 — the same year a rapper from Compton released good kid, m.A.A.d city , one of the most critically acclaimed hip…
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Kenzo
Kenzo peaked in 2022 and holds at current rank #586 , with just 4,242 total SSA bearers. It's a Japanese name that has traveled far from its origin — picked up partly through fash…
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Kobe
Kobe peaked in 2001 at rank 409 with 21,923 total American boys carrying the name, a trajectory that maps almost exactly onto Kobe Bryant's NBA career. The name spiked alongside t…
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Kyla
Kyla peaked in 2004 and currently holds #548 , with over 43,000 recorded bearers. It's a feminine form of Kyle — a Scottish Gaelic place name from a word meaning "narrow strait" o…
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Kyle
Kyle peaked in 1990 at rank 439 with a striking 485,170 total American boys carrying the name, one of the highest cumulative counts at this rank tier and a clear marker of the nam…
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Lawrence
Lawrence peaked in 1952. That single fact explains both why it fell out of fashion and why it's quietly interesting again. Names that hit their ceiling in the early 1950s occupy a…
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Lawson
Lawson sits at rank 415 with 17,698 total American boys carrying the name, peaking in 2021 within the broader surname-as-first-name wave. The trajectory tracks a contemporary Amer…
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Leandro
Leandro is the Iberian Peninsula's version of a Greek myth — Leander, the young man who swam the Hellespont nightly to reach his lover Hero, until a storm extinguished the light t…
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