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Tarik vs Tarynn

American parents have registered 4,192 Tariks since 1880, against 575 Tarynns. Tarik is still ahead, with 36 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tarik against Tarynn, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tarik Tarynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tarik has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Tarik had 46 and Tarynn had 27.

Side by side

  Tarik Tarynn
Total US births 4,192575
Most in one year 16428
Babies in 2025 36under 5
Estimated living today 4,000570
Median age today 2919
Peak year 19962003
Best rank 849th boys4,536th girls
Rank in 2025 3,240thunranked
First recorded 19581975
Girls / boys 11 / 4,181575 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tariks alive today are over 29; half the Tarynns are over 19. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tarik and Tarynn.