Tarek
The boy's name Tarek has been in the national records since 1962, with 2,278 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 4,539th. About 2,200 Tareks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Tarek
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,278
- Estimated living today
- 2,200
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1996
- Best rank
- 1,552nd
- Rank in 2025
- 4,539th
- First recorded
- 1962
How old the living Tareks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,278 babies given the name since 1962, about 2,200 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 660 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tareks
- Tarek Hamed (born 1988)Egyptian association football player
- Tarek Salman (born 1997)association football player
- Tarek Fatah (1949–2023)Pakistan-born Canadian Islamism critic and non-fiction writer
- Tarek Alaa (born 2002)Egyptian association football player
- Tarek Soliman (born 1962)Egyptian footballer
- Tarek Thabet (born 1971)Tunisian association football player
- Tarek Boudali (born 1979)French actor
- Amro Tarek (born 1992)Egyptian association football player
People named Tarek with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tarek is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tarek is most concentrated in California (3.7×), New York (3.7×), Michigan (2.5×), Texas (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1996
The most popular boys’ names the year Tarek peaked:
Tarek elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Tarek | 2,515 | 361st |
| England and Wales boys | Tarek | 178 | 1,040th |
| Switzerland boys | Tarek | 88 | 663rd |
| Belgium boys | Tarek | 81 | 688th |
| Poland boys | Tarek | 5 birth registrations | 356th |
| Ireland boys | Tarek | 3 | 749th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tarek: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Tarek | 61 | 0.005% | 576th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Tarek | 25 | 0.006% | 458th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Tarek | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Tarek is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Tarek: rank by region
In 2015, Tarek was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Tarek | 324 | 5 |
In 2020, Tarek was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Tarek | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tarek by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 447th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Tarek among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tarek | 44 | 77 |
| Finland girls | Tarek | — | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tarek lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,295 men called Tarek were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Tarek | 82 | 1.946 | 101 |
| Melilla | Tarek | 49 | 1.120 | 150 |
| Barcelona | Tarek | 235 | 0.081 | 791 |
| Málaga | Tarek | 71 | 0.081 | 738 |
| Tarragona | Tarek | 34 | 0.078 | 929 |
| Girona | Tarek | 32 | 0.077 | 903 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tarek against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.