Tarik
Last seen for girls in 1979 at #10,210 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 114 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,181since 1958
Tarik over time
Rank among boys' names. Tarik has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,335 | 35 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,344 | 35 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,074 | 37 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,491 | 53 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,109 | 65 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,457 | 51 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,429 | 52 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,623 | 45 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,437 | 51 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,451 | 52 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,104 | 65 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,951 | 72 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,654 | 86 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,674 | 80 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,687 | 76 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,687 | 73 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,527 | 79 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,353 | 94 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,068 | 127 | |
| 1998 | — | #977 | 141 | |
| 1997 | — | #909 | 150 | |
| 1996 | — | #849 | 164 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,159 | 98 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,048 | 113 | |
| 1993 | — | #924 | 135 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,150 | 92 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,139 | 93 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,176 | 86 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,336 | 67 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,404 | 55 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,259 | 60 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,334 | 54 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,190 | 62 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,174 | 60 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,067 | 69 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,107 | 68 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,068 | 73 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,089 | 69 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #930 | 89 |
| 1978 | — | #795 | 114 | |
| 1977 | — | #975 | 77 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #860 | 94 |
| 1975 | — | #800 | 108 | |
| 1974 | — | #867 | 85 | |
| 1973 | — | #904 | 78 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,177 | 48 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,214 | 46 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,743 | 25 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,642 | 25 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tarik! It came in at #3,944, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tarik
- 95 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,240)
- 166 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #3,240)
- 783 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 310 spots in 1996 (#1,159 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 1980 (#930 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1978 at #795 (114 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1973–1979
- Highest: 1 in 11,551 boys born in 1996 were named Tarik (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #795 in 1978, was only 1 in 14,402 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Tarik (1,199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,966 |
| 1960s | 106 | #1,642 (1969) | #2,634 |
| 1970s | 764 | #795 (1978) | #1,027 |
| 1980s | 637 | #1,067 (1983) | #1,203 |
| 1990s | 1,199 | #849 (1996) | #1,040 |
| 2000s | 743 | #1,353 (2000) | #1,783 |
| 2010s | 498 | #2,109 (2017) | #2,551 |
| 2020s | 224 | #2,775 (2021) | #3,177 |
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.
Tarik in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
Top boys' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 321,054 of them was named Tarik, which outranked 14.7% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,762 names at #10,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,721,536 boys got a published name in 1979; 1 in 19,343 of them was named Tarik, which outranked 86.8% of the 7,071 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).