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Tareq

#11,830 in 2025Boys' name

Messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star, through Tariq

Tareq has been given to 363 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #11,830 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Tareq, 2025

1 in 553,000

Tareq over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tareq: meaning, origin, and history

Messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star, through Tariq

Arabic

What Tareq means

Tareq belongs to the name family reached through Tareq → Tariq. Its meaning is “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tareq is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tariq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 363 boys were recorded with the name Tareq between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1991; its best national rank was #4,190 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,860 in 2020 to #11,830 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,915 in 2015 to #11,830 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 Tareq?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,830
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tareq 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tareq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tareqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tareq was born before 2002 — so the typical Tareq is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
363
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.4% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Tareq 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+85
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 1991 (14)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,190
1991

Spellings of Tareq

Tareq is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 49.5% against Tareq's 0.09%.

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.

Tareq around the world

Where Tareq 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
    1997–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2021
    #5,896
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2003–2017
    #2,569
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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

Tareq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,830
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 30
Best rank ever
#4,190
1991
Peak year
1991
14 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
363
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Tareq

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

TarenTarasTarynTarunTarakTarinTarryTarusTarellTaranTarekTaroTaronTarvisTarronTarrenTarisTarigTaraTarikTarezTariusTarayTarl

Sibling names for Tareq

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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