Tarik

Where Tarik comes from

Tarik hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1958
    First appearance
    #3,944 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1974
    Tarik Oulida born
    Moroccan association football player
  3. 1978
    Peak, #795
    114 babies named Tarik — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1986
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,334.
  5. 1988
    Tarik Elyounoussi born
    Norwegian association football player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tarik Elyounoussi · Norwegian association football player, born 1988
  • Tarik Oulida · Moroccan association football player, born 1974
  • Tarik Black · American basketball player, born 1991
  • Tarik Saleh · Swedish director of Egyptian origin, born 1972
  • Tarik Tissoudali · Moroccan footballer, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.