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Tarik

#3,303 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Tariq

Tarik has been given to 4,192 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #3,303 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Tarik, 2025

1 in 92,100

Tarik over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarik: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tariq

Arabic

What Tarik means

Tarik is a form of Tariq.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tarik → Tariq. The family’s meaning is “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”, recorded in English with the source elements ṭāriq.

Origin, language, and formation

Tarik is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Tarik comes through Arabic طَارِق.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tariq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,181 boys were recorded with the name Tarik between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1996; its best national rank was #797 in 1978.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,127 in 2020 to #3,303 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,481 in 2015 to #3,303 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Tarik between 1976 and 1979. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1976; its best national rank was #9,142 in 1976.

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 Tarik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,303
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarik 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tariks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarik was born before 1995 — so the typical Tarik is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,181
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (1,199).

Is Tarik 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
+84
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−176
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−822
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
22.0%
Peak was 1996 (164)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#797
1978

Spellings of Tarik

Tarik is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 70.7% against Tarik's 0.22%.

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.

Where Tarik is used

Across 1910–2025, Tarik was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 60,542 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tarik has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tarik around the world

Where Tarik 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2013
    #711
    in 2013
  • France
    1958–2025
    #1,769
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Tarik

People whose public names include Tarik, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tarik in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tarik. Linked forms have their own page here.

TarekTariqTareque

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tarik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,303
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 176
Best rank ever
#797
1978
Peak year
1996
164 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,181
Count in 2025
36

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,142
1976
Peak year
1976
6 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1979
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tarik

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

TaronTariqTarekTaranDerikTarunTarynTarasHenrikTarenTarellTyrikYerikTareqArikLyrikAdrikTarusTarakTarryAndrikEirikMerikMavrik

Names with a curve like Tarik

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tarik, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

JadeRasheedBrannonRashidKelbyJameelShayMikalDeshonAkilDemarcoDedrick

Sibling names for Tarik

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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