Tarak
Tarak was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,835 among boys’ names; 124 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tarak mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tarak is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit तारक (tāraka).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tarak?
#8,835 among boys’ names, 2025
Tarak entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,835 in 2025.
16 babies in 2023, the peak
Tarak peaked in 2023, when 16 boys were given it, #5,885 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,835 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,904 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,885 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,092 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,087 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,986 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,133 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,654 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,048 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,985 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #11,889 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,998 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,307 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 5 | #7,184 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarak has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tarak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarak, and how old are they?
An estimated 122 Americans named Tarak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 293 people named Tarak (3 women and girls, 290 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,833 babies since 1880, Tarak is the fourth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 67 babies (13%), the third most given that year.
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 Tarak
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 Tarak and names like it
- Compare Tarak and TarikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTarak peaked in 2023.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Tarak: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Tarak.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tarak alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.