Tariq
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #11,138 · #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 514 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,878since 1963
Tariq over time
Rank among boys' names. Tariq has never cracked the top 400 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 | — | #1,585 | 107 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,405 | 133 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,309 | 146 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,353 | 138 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,365 | 135 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,325 | 135 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,459 | 119 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,244 | 148 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,287 | 141 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,399 | 125 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,668 | 94 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,670 | 92 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,492 | 109 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,439 | 115 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,505 | 107 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,470 | 111 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,453 | 115 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,428 | 117 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,215 | 145 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,043 | 174 | |
| 2005 | — | #999 | 172 | |
| 2004 | — | #871 | 201 | |
| 2003 | — | #775 | 225 | |
| 2002 | — | #738 | 236 | |
| 2001 | — | #689 | 261 | |
| 2000 | — | #646 | 281 | |
| 1999 | — | #580 | 335 | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #444 | 514 |
| 1997 | — | #729 | 213 | |
| 1996 | — | #799 | 180 | |
| 1995 | — | #949 | 137 | |
| 1994 | — | #935 | 138 | |
| 1993 | — | #909 | 140 | |
| 1992 | — | #923 | 132 | |
| 1991 | — | #930 | 130 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,086 | 96 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,140 | 87 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,427 | 54 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,218 | 63 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,345 | 53 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,158 | 65 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,228 | 56 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,178 | 59 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,179 | 61 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,029 | 78 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,313 | 51 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,044 | 71 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,210 | 53 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,390 | 41 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,134 | 21 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,050 | 21 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,966 | 21 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,399 | 15 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tariq! It came in at #4,048, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1968, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Tariq
- 180 spots since 2024 (#1,405 → #1,585)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#1,325 → #1,585)
- 83 spots since 2015 (#1,668 → #1,585)
- Biggest jump: 285 spots in 1998 (#729 → #444)
- Biggest drop: 136 spots in 1999 (#444 → #580)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 1998 at #444 (514 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1991–2005
- Highest: 1 in 3,719 boys born in 1998 were named Tariq (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,963 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.3% of all boys named Tariq (2,015) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 17 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,870 |
| 1970s | 337 | #1,044 (1979) | #1,791 |
| 1980s | 627 | #1,029 (1981) | #1,222 |
| 1990s | 2,015 | #444 (1998) | #828 |
| 2000s | 1,927 | #646 (2000) | #986 |
| 2010s | 1,161 | #1,244 (2018) | #1,463 |
| 2020s | 794 | #1,309 (2023) | #1,390 |
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.
Tariq in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 252,421 of them was named Tariq, which outranked 32.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,122Zikeria8
- #10,122Zyan8
- #10,122Zyanna8
- #11,138Tariq7
- #11,138Aaliayah7
- #11,138Aaminah7
- #11,138Aanchal7
- #12,426Aailyah6
- #12,426Aaisha6
- #12,426Aajah6
Tied with 1,287 names at #11,138; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 3,719 of them was named Tariq, which outranked 96.1% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.