Taariq
Taariq was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 285 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Taariq by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Taariq?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,988, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1999, the peak
Taariq peaked in 1999, when 18 boys were given it, #4,128 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #13,988 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,844 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,621 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,960 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,900 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,480 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #12,081 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,435 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #12,010 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 6 | #12,284 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #12,352 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,558 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,868 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,998 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,830 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,548 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,210 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,757 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,128 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,833 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,025 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,576 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,078 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,499 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,657 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,817 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,043 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,747 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,064 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,350 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Taariq a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Taariq has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Taariq: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Taariq, and how old are they?
An estimated 278 Americans named Taariq and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 18 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 250 people named Taariq (0 women and girls, 250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Taariq?
Taariq is a less common spelling of Tariq: SSA has recorded 285 Taariq and 6,885 Tariq since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 7,533 babies since 1880, Taariq is the third most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 113 babies recorded by SSA was a Taariq (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Taariq
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Taariq and names like it
- Compare Taariq and TariqBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTaariq peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Taariq since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Taariq.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Taariq alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.