Meaning not yet researched.
Tarek: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,303 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,303 in 1985; #4,687 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tarek in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,687 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #1,303.
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Tarek: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,303 in 1985 · most boys in one year: 64 (1996).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Tarek, making it the 4,687th most common boys’ name of the year, down 505 places from #4,182 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 26 boys named Tarek in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,303, reached in 1985. The most boys given the name in a single year was 64, in 1996. For comparison, it was #2,675 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tarek in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 2,278 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 553 babies named Tarek.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 362 US boys were named Tarek; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tariq (6,885 babies since 1880) and Tarik (4,192 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Tarek in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 22 | #4,687 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,182 |
| 2023 | — | — | 37 | #3,281 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,403 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,487 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,481 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,887 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,742 |
| 2017 | — | — | 56 | #2,339 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,618 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,675 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,216 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,990 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,226 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2010 | — | — | 34 | #3,297 |
| 2009 | — | — | 44 | #2,795 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,874 |
| 2007 | — | — | 33 | #3,373 |
| 2006 | — | — | 45 | #2,651 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,524 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,689 |
| 2003 | — | — | 44 | #2,420 |
| 2002 | — | — | 57 | #1,968 |
| 2001 | — | — | 46 | #2,244 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,127 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,964 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,738 |
| 1997 | — | — | 57 | #1,725 |
| 1996 | — | — | 64 | #1,570 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,732 |
| 1994 | — | — | 46 | #1,864 |
| 1993 | — | — | 60 | #1,537 |
| 1992 | — | — | 62 | #1,489 |
| 1991 | — | — | 58 | #1,525 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,776 |
| 1989 | — | — | 46 | #1,703 |
| 1988 | — | — | 44 | #1,641 |
| 1987 | — | — | 43 | #1,633 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,721 |
| 1985 | — | — | 55 | #1,303 |
| 1984 | — | — | 40 | #1,554 |
| 1983 | — | — | 20 | #2,486 |
| 1982 | — | — | 34 | #1,731 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,986 |
| 1980 | — | — | 36 | #1,650 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,097 |
| 1978 | — | — | 29 | #1,828 |
| 1977 | — | — | 27 | #1,900 |
| 1976 | — | — | 31 | #1,706 |
| 1975 | — | — | 25 | #1,940 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,973 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,114 |
| 1972 | — | — | 23 | #1,922 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,041 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,204 |
| 1969 | — | — | 18 | #2,041 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,187 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,237 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,507 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,599 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,563 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,997 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).