Tariq — #1405 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Tariq

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,771 babies named Tariq between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Tariq currently holds the #1405 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 514 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tariq performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 2,015 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Tariq shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 818 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Tariq in 30 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tariq in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,771 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.