Tarek
#4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
- Peak · boys
- 1985 · 55 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,278since 1962
Tarek over time
Rank among boys' names. Tarek has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #4,072 | 26 |
| 2023 | #3,228 | 37 |
| 2022 | #3,344 | 35 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #2,708 | 45 |
| 2017 | #2,319 | 56 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2008 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | #2,621 | 45 |
| 2005 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #2,643 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,392 | 44 |
| 2002 | #1,943 | 57 |
| 2001 | #2,217 | 46 |
| 2000 | #2,087 | 48 |
| 1999 | #1,932 | 50 |
| 1998 | #1,719 | 59 |
| 1997 | #1,706 | 57 |
| 1996 | #1,552 | 64 |
| 1995 | #1,706 | 52 |
| 1994 | #1,851 | 46 |
| 1993 | #1,524 | 60 |
| 1992 | #1,472 | 62 |
| 1991 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,678 | 46 |
| 1988 | #1,618 | 44 |
| 1987 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #1,694 | 37 |
| 1985 | #1,290 | 55 |
| 1984 | #1,531 | 40 |
| 1983 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #1,700 | 34 |
| 1981 | #1,942 | 28 |
| 1980 | #1,619 | 36 |
| 1979 | #2,048 | 25 |
| 1978 | #1,794 | 29 |
| 1977 | #1,858 | 27 |
| 1976 | #1,677 | 31 |
| 1975 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #1,934 | 23 |
| 1973 | #2,036 | 20 |
| 1972 | #1,871 | 23 |
| 1971 | #1,987 | 21 |
| 1970 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #2,476 | 11 |
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| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | #3,640 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tarek! It came in at #3,640, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tarek is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,078 · 1 in 21,705
- New York#1,096 · 1 in 20,940
Best ever in a state: #502 in Massachusetts, 1990.
Show every state
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| California | #1,078 | 11 | 1 in 21,705 |
| New York | #1,096 | 6 | 1 in 20,940 |
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See more about Tarek
- 467 spots since 2024 (#4,072 → #4,539)
- 1,121 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #4,539)
- 1,898 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #4,539)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1985 at #1,290 (55 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 29,598 boys born in 1996 were named Tarek (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,290 in 1985, was only 1 in 33,604 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.3% of all boys named Tarek (553) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 76 | #1,977 (1969) | #2,805 |
| 1970s | 242 | #1,677 (1976) | #1,921 |
| 1980s | 383 | #1,290 (1985) | #1,709 |
| 1990s | 553 | #1,472 (1992) | #1,672 |
| 2000s | 444 | #1,943 (2002) | #2,529 |
| 2010s | 395 | #2,319 (2017) | #3,009 |
| 2020s | 185 | #3,228 (2023) | #3,671 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tarek in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
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1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 43,418 of them was named Tarek, which outranked 80.2% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,587Tito44
- #1,587Tobin44
- #1,587Viet44
- #1,612Tarek43
- #1,612Arnaldo43
- #1,612Avrohom43
- #1,612Benjiman43
- #1,636Abelardo42
- #1,636Antwone42
- #1,636Cash42
Tied with 23 names at #1,612; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.