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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Rowan
Rowan carries 20,976 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 266, with a 2018 peak that placed her inside the top 250 for the first time. The female tra…
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Ryleigh
Ryleigh carries 34,242 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 302, with a 2019 peak that placed her inside the top 250. The chart shows a sharp 2000s a…
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Shiloh
Shiloh reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 336, with a total American count of 8,183 reflecting a Hebrew place-name that has climbed steadily from rare to mainstream over th…
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Stevie
Two singer-songwriters, one borrowed nickname, and a fresh 2024 peak. Stevie now sits at rank 209 with 16,200 cumulative American girls on SSA record, and the chart shape is unusu…
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Sullivan
Sullivan reached its all-time peak in 2024 at rank 339, with a total American count of 14,546 reflecting an Irish surname that has climbed steadily into mainstream first-name use…
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Timothy
Timothy sits at rank 208 in 2024, far below its 1959 peak. The total American count of 1,082,404 makes Timothy one of the most heavily-used boy names of the 20th century, and the…
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Tobias
Tobias peaked in 2016 at rank 270 and now sits at 280, with 28,093 cumulative American boys on SSA record. The chart line shows a steady climb across the 2000s and 2010s with a ge…
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Walter
Walter peaked all the way back in 1918 at rank 11, then drifted gently downward for the better part of a century, hit a low around 2010, and has been climbing back since. The curr…
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Warren
Warren peaked all the way back in 1921 at rank 27 and now sits at 262, more than a century later, on what looks like a gentle re-emergence. The total American count of 183,044 ref…
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Zane
Zane peaked in 2018 at rank 187 and now sits at 306, a gentle seven-year settling that has kept the name in stable mid-chart territory rather than collapsing the way many trend-dr…
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Alex
Alex ranks #526 with 235 entries, registered male. This is a maximally generic human-name pet pick — short, friendly, gender-flexible, and so common as a person's name that puttin…
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Allie
Allie ranks at #671 with 180 entries, registered female. The name is a diminutive of Allison, Alice, or Alexandra that has become its own standalone pet name. On the licensing for…
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Amy
Amy ranks at #491 with 246 entries, registered female. This is one of the most quintessentially human-name pet picks on the chart — a name that peaked on the SSA chart in the 1970…
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Apple
Apple ranks at #598 with 205 entries, registered female. The name belongs to the food-name register, but with a specific orchard-and-fall aesthetic that distinguishes it from the…
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August
August ranks at #624 with 196 entries, registered male on this chart. The name is the late-summer month and a Latin-rooted human name (Augustus, meaning venerable), and on a pet r…
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Austin
Austin ranks at #684 with 177 entries, registered male. The name is a place-name (Austin, Texas) and a contracted form of Augustine. On a pet it leans toward the Texan place-name…
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Baci
Baci ranks #538 with 231 entries, registered as gender-neutral. The name comes from Italian baci (kisses), the plural of bacio , and is most familiar to Americans through the Peru…
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Barley
Barley ranks at #610 with 202 entries, registered male. The name is a grain-name borrow with a soft two-syllable shape and a deliberately rural, slightly farm-aesthetic register.…
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Blaze
Blaze ranks #436 with 283 entries, registered male. The name is a direct English word borrowing — both for fire and for the white facial marking on horses and dogs. In pet-naming,…
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Bob
Bob ranks at #622 with 197 entries, registered male. The name is the bluntest possible human-name pet pick: one syllable, no diminutive, no ornament, just Bob. Owners reaching for…
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