Tarik
Tarik is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 797th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1996164 births
- Best rank
- #797in 1978
- Since 1958
- 4,145people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,145 boys have been named Tarik in the United States since 1958, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 164 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 1990s alone account for 29%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1996, its biggest year
Tarik was the 852nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.
Names that rose and fell with Tarik
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rasheedpeak 1995
- Akilpeak 1994
- Rashidpeak 1996
- Tavispeak 1999
- Jahmalpeak 1993
- Brannonpeak 1998
- Deshonpeak 1997
- Gildardopeak 1998
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.