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Tarak

#8,835 in 2025Boys' name

Someone or something which delivers, in the senses of:, through तारक

Tarak has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #8,835 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Tarak, 2025

1 in 368,000

Tarak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarak: meaning, origin, and history

Someone or something which delivers, in the senses of:, through तारक

Sanskrit

What Tarak means

Tarak belongs to the name family reached through Tarak → तारक. Its meaning is “someone or something which delivers, in the senses of:”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarak is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Tarak comes through Sanskrit तारक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include तारक.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 boys were recorded with the name Tarak between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,885 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,986 in 2020 to #8,835 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tarak?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,835
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Taraks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarak was born before 2019 — so the typical Tarak is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Tarak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+69
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,849
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 2023 (16)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
53.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,885
2023

Spellings of Tarak

Tarak is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 94.2% against Tarak's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Tarak around the world

Where Tarak ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1962–2000
    #4,002
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tarak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,835
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,849
Best rank ever
#5,885
2023
Peak year
2023
16 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Tarak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TareqTarisTarigTarezTarenTarayTarasTarynTarunTarrinTarickTarinTarlTarrisTareekBurakTarzanTarryTarajTariusTarusTarellTaryllTary

Sibling names for Tarak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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