Tariq
Tariq is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 133 births. Its best rank was 444th, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1330.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1998514 births
- Best rank
- #444in 1998
- Since 1963
- 6,771people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,771 boys have been named Tariq in the United States since 1963, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 514 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 30%. It has spent 14 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Tariq was the 444th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1998 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Tariq
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kahlilpeak 1995
- Kaylonpeak 1996
- Dangelopeak 1996
- Derianpeak 1996
- Amerpeak 2003
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Nabeelpeak 1999
- Quranpeak 1997
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.