Tariq
The boy's name Tariq has been in the national records since 1963, with 6,885 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,585th. About 6,700 Tariqs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tariq boys named Tariq
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,885
- Estimated living today
- 6,700
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 444th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,585th
- First recorded
- 1963
- Girls / boys
- 7 / 6,878
How old the living Tariqs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,885 babies given the name since 1963, about 6,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 2,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (“messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (“to knock, to rap”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Tariqs
- Tariq ibn Ziyad (670–720)8th-century Muslim general
- Tariq Aziz (1936–2015)Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
- Tariq Ali (born 1943)British political activist, writer, and historian
- Tariq Ramadan (born 1962)Swiss Muslim scholar
- Tariq Lamptey (born 2000)Ghanaian association football player
- Tariq al-Hashimi (born 1942)Iraqi politician
- Tariq Jameel (born 1953)Pakistani islamic scholar
- Tariq Anwar (born 1945)British film editor
People named Tariq with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tariq is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tariq is most concentrated in New Jersey (2.8×), Florida (2.5×), Maryland (2.4×), Virginia (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular boys’ names the year Tariq peaked:
Tariq elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Tariq | 1,060 | 334th |
| France boys | Tariq | 420 | 1,505th |
| Scotland boys | Tariq | 37 | 225th |
| Ireland boys | Tariq | 30 | 390th |
| Belgium boys | Tariq | 15 | 1,207th |
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.
Tariq 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 | Tariq | 33 | 58 |
| Finland girls | Tariq | — | 10 |
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 Tariq lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 826 men called Tariq 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teruel | Tariq | 13 | 0.187 | 441 |
| Araba/Álava | Tariq | 20 | 0.119 | 628 |
| Almería | Tariq | 34 | 0.086 | 813 |
| Huelva | Tariq | 22 | 0.082 | 708 |
| Barcelona | Tariq | 215 | 0.074 | 851 |
| Murcia | Tariq | 57 | 0.072 | 841 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 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
Tariq 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.