Tariq vs Tarrence
American parents have registered 6,885 Tariqs since 1880, against 793 Tarrences. Tariq is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Tariq Tarrence
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
Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Tariq for 54 years and Tarrence for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Tariq | Tarrence | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,885 | 793 |
| Most in one year | 521 | 27 |
| Babies in 2025 | 107 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 6,700 | 740 |
| Median age today | 24 | 39 |
| Peak year | 1998 | 1978 |
| Best rank | 444th boys | 1,870th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,585th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1963 | 1962 |
| Girls / boys | 7 / 6,878 | 0 / 793 |
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 Tarrences alive today are over 39; half the Tariqs are over 24. That is 15 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: Tariq and Tarrence.