Meaning not yet researched.
Tarik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 36 in 2025. Its best rank was #797 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #797 in 1978; #3,304 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tarik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,304 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #797.
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Tarik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 36 boys in 2025. Peak: #797 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 164 (1996).
In 2025, 36 US boys were named Tarik, making it the 3,304th most common boys’ name of the year, up 85 places from #3,389 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 35 boys named Tarik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #797, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 164, in 1996. For comparison, it was #2,482 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tarik in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 5 babies. In all, 4,192 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,199 babies named Tarik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 426 US boys were named Tarik; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tariq (6,885 babies since 1880) and Tarek (2,278 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tareek, Tarrick and Tharak are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tareek (92), Tarrick (36), Tharak (5).
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 Tarik 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 | — | — | 36 | #3,304 |
| 2024 | — | — | 35 | #3,389 |
| 2023 | — | — | 36 | #3,336 |
| 2022 | — | — | 35 | #3,404 |
| 2021 | — | — | 45 | #2,814 |
| 2020 | — | — | 37 | #3,128 |
| 2019 | — | — | 53 | #2,522 |
| 2018 | — | — | 32 | #3,513 |
| 2017 | — | — | 65 | #2,127 |
| 2016 | — | — | 52 | #2,472 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,482 |
| 2014 | — | — | 52 | #2,457 |
| 2013 | — | — | 45 | #2,663 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,481 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,475 |
| 2010 | — | — | 46 | #2,675 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,480 |
| 2008 | — | — | 65 | #2,120 |
| 2007 | — | — | 72 | #1,971 |
| 2006 | — | — | 86 | #1,666 |
| 2005 | — | — | 80 | #1,690 |
| 2004 | — | — | 76 | #1,697 |
| 2003 | — | — | 73 | #1,699 |
| 2002 | — | — | 66 | #1,764 |
| 2001 | — | — | 79 | #1,540 |
| 2000 | — | — | 94 | #1,360 |
| 1999 | — | — | 127 | #1,072 |
| 1998 | — | — | 141 | #979 |
| 1997 | — | — | 150 | #913 |
| 1996 | — | — | 164 | #852 |
| 1995 | — | — | 98 | #1,170 |
| 1994 | — | — | 113 | #1,051 |
| 1993 | — | — | 135 | #928 |
| 1992 | — | — | 92 | #1,157 |
| 1991 | — | — | 93 | #1,145 |
| 1990 | — | — | 86 | #1,179 |
| 1989 | — | — | 67 | #1,348 |
| 1988 | — | — | 55 | #1,425 |
| 1987 | — | — | 60 | #1,270 |
| 1986 | — | — | 54 | #1,344 |
| 1985 | — | — | 62 | #1,211 |
| 1984 | — | — | 60 | #1,188 |
| 1983 | — | — | 69 | #1,074 |
| 1982 | — | — | 68 | #1,113 |
| 1981 | — | — | 73 | #1,070 |
| 1980 | — | — | 69 | #1,095 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,782 | 89 | #935 |
| 1978 | — | — | 114 | #797 |
| 1977 | — | — | 77 | #980 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,144 | 94 | #864 |
| 1975 | — | — | 108 | #802 |
| 1974 | — | — | 85 | #879 |
| 1973 | — | — | 78 | #913 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,193 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,232 |
| 1970 | — | — | 25 | #1,790 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,675 |
| 1968 | — | — | 18 | #1,955 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,593 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,962 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,509 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,829 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,834 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #4,019 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,852 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,515 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,450 |
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).