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Tawfiq

#9,603 in 2025Boys' name

Success, good fortune

Tawfiq has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #9,603 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Tawfiq, 2025

1 in 414,000

Tawfiq over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tawfiq: meaning, origin, and history

Success, good fortune

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tawfiq means

Tawfiq means “success, good fortune”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 boys were recorded with the name Tawfiq between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2004; its best national rank was #8,374 in 1988.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,493 in 2015 to #9,603 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.

How common is Tawfiq?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,603
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tawfiq 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawfiq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tawfiqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawfiq was born before 2011 — so the typical Tawfiq is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
110
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Tawfiq 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+890
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2004 (8)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,374
1988

Spellings of Tawfiq

Tawfiq is not the most common spelling — Tariq is, with 98.4% against Tawfiq's 1.6%.

  • Tariq98.4%6,878
  • Tawfiq1.6%110

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.

Tawfiq around the world

Where Tawfiq 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
    2002–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    2000–2025
    #6,655
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tawfiq by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,603
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,374
1988
Peak year
2004
8 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Tawfiq

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

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Sibling names for Tawfiq

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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