Tarik
Tarik was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,303 among boys’ names; 4,192 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,000 Americans named Tarik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tarik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tarik?
#3,303 among boys’ names, 2025
Tarik fell from #2,481 in 2015 to #3,303 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.6 to 21.1 per million.
164 babies in 1996, the peak
Tarik peaked in 1996, when 164 boys were given it, #850 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,303 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,387 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 36 | #3,334 | 21.0 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,402 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,813 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,127 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,521 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,509 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,126 | 35.1 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,472 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 51 | #2,481 | 26.6 |
| 2014 | 52 | #2,455 | 27.1 |
| 2013 | 45 | #2,661 | 23.8 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,480 | 26.9 |
| 2011 | 51 | #2,474 | 26.9 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,674 | 24.0 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,479 | 26.2 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,119 | 31.9 |
| 2007 | 72 | #1,971 | 34.7 |
| 2006 | 86 | #1,666 | 41.8 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,687 | 40.1 |
| 2004 | 76 | #1,694 | 38.3 |
| 2003 | 73 | #1,696 | 37.0 |
| 2002 | 66 | #1,761 | 34.0 |
| 2001 | 79 | #1,536 | 40.7 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,357 | 47.9 |
| 1999 | 127 | #1,070 | 66.1 |
| 1998 | 141 | #976 | 73.8 |
| 1997 | 150 | #911 | 79.6 |
| 1996 | 164 | #850 | 86.6 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,166 | 51.5 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,047 | 58.5 |
| 1993 | 135 | #926 | 68.8 |
| 1992 | 92 | #1,153 | 46.1 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,139 | 46.0 |
| 1990 | 86 | #1,174 | 41.9 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,343 | 33.5 |
| 1988 | 55 | #1,420 | 28.7 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,268 | 32.1 |
| 1986 | 54 | #1,343 | 29.3 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,210 | 33.5 |
| 1984 | 60 | #1,187 | 33.2 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,074 | 38.5 |
| 1982 | 68 | #1,113 | 37.5 |
| 1981 | 73 | #1,070 | 40.8 |
| 1980 | 69 | #1,095 | 38.7 |
| 1979 | 89 | #935 | 51.7 |
| 1978 | 114 | #797 | 69.4 |
| 1977 | 77 | #980 | 46.9 |
| 1976 | 94 | #864 | 59.9 |
| 1975 | 108 | #802 | 69.2 |
| 1974 | 85 | #879 | 54.1 |
| 1973 | 78 | #913 | 50.0 |
| 1972 | 48 | #1,193 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,232 | 26.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,789 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 25 | #1,674 | 14.0 |
| 1968 | 18 | #1,954 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,592 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,961 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,508 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,828 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,833 | 4.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #4,018 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,851 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,514 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,449 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tarik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tarik has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tarik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tarik, and how old are they?
4,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,192 Americans ever recorded as Tarik. The median Tarik alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 4,190 people named Tarik (106 women and girls, 4,084 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,840 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 824 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 570 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tarik born?
The states with the most babies named Tarik are New York, California and New Jersey, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 597 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 306 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 206 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 199 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 136 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 99 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 78 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 70 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| District of Columbia | 48 | not ranked | 2.4× |
Where Tarik is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tarik is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tarik with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,833 babies since 1880, Tarik is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 67 babies (54%), again the most given.
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 Tarik
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 Tarik and names like it
- Compare Tarik and TarekBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTarik peaked in 1996.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tarik since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Tarik.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tarik alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.