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Tilak

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Tilak has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Tilak, 2024

1 in 418,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tilak: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Tilak means

Tilak is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tilak is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 boys were recorded with the name Tilak between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,024 in 2016.

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 Tilak?

Tilak had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tilak 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tilak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tilaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tilak was born before 2016 — so the typical Tilak is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
99
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.5% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Tilak 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (15)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,024
2016

Spellings of Tilak

Tilak is not the most common spelling — Silas is, with 57.6% against Tilak's 0.08%.

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.

Tilak around the world

Where Tilak 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
    1996–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tilak by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,024
2016
Peak year
2016
15 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tilak

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

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Sibling names for Tilak

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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