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Tariq vs Tarynn

American parents have registered 6,885 Tariqs since 1880, against 575 Tarynns. Tariq is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tariq against Tarynn, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tariq 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

Tariq has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Tariq had 21 and Tarynn had 7.

Side by side

  Tariq Tarynn
Total US births 6,885575
Most in one year 52128
Babies in 2025 107under 5
Estimated living today 6,700570
Median age today 2419
Peak year 19982003
Best rank 444th boys4,536th girls
Rank in 2025 1,585thunranked
First recorded 19631975
Girls / boys 7 / 6,878575 / 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 Tariqs alive today are over 24; half the Tarynns are over 19. That is 5 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 Tarynn.