Tarik
Last seen for girls in 1979 at #10,210 · #3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 114 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,181since 1958
Tarik over time
Rank among boys' names. Tarik has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,240 | 36 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,335 | 35 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,293 | 36 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,344 | 35 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,775 | 45 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,074 | 37 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,491 | 53 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,446 | 32 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,109 | 65 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,437 | 52 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,457 | 51 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,429 | 52 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,623 | 45 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,448 | 51 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,437 | 51 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,632 | 46 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,451 | 52 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,104 | 65 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,951 | 72 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,654 | 86 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,674 | 80 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,687 | 76 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,687 | 73 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,744 | 66 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,527 | 79 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,353 | 94 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,068 | 127 | |
| 1998 | — | #977 | 141 | |
| 1997 | — | #909 | 150 | |
| 1996 | — | #849 | 164 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,159 | 98 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,048 | 113 | |
| 1993 | — | #924 | 135 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,150 | 92 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,139 | 93 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,176 | 86 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,336 | 67 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,404 | 55 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,259 | 60 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,334 | 54 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,190 | 62 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,174 | 60 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,067 | 69 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,107 | 68 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,068 | 73 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,089 | 69 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #930 | 89 |
| 1978 | — | #795 | 114 | |
| 1977 | — | #975 | 77 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #860 | 94 |
| 1975 | — | #800 | 108 | |
| 1974 | — | #867 | 85 | |
| 1973 | — | #904 | 78 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,177 | 48 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,214 | 46 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,743 | 25 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,642 | 25 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,894 | 18 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,470 | 11 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
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| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,685 | 10 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,944 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Tarik! It came in at #3,944, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1962, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Tarik is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#249 · 1 in 1,534
- Pennsylvania#331 · 1 in 4,585
- Massachusetts#373 · 1 in 6,630
- New Jersey#428 · 1 in 5,173
- Georgia#497 · 1 in 5,394
Best ever in a state: #155 in District of Columbia, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #249 | 5 | 1 in 1,534 |
| Pennsylvania | #331 | 16 | 1 in 4,585 |
| Massachusetts | #373 | 5 | 1 in 6,630 |
| New Jersey | #428 | 8 | 1 in 5,173 |
| Georgia | #497 | 7 | 1 in 5,394 |
| New York | #520 | 17 | 1 in 6,486 |
| Ohio | #675 | 5 | 1 in 15,414 |
| Texas | #1,003 | 6 | 1 in 19,186 |
| California | #1,017 | 8 | 1 in 21,116 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Tarik
- 95 spots since 2024 (#3,335 → #3,240)
- 166 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #3,240)
- 783 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #3,240)
- Biggest jump: 310 spots in 1996 (#1,159 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 159 spots in 1980 (#930 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 1978 at #795 (114 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1973–1979
- Highest: 1 in 11,551 boys born in 1996 were named Tarik (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #795 in 1978, was only 1 in 14,402 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.7% of all boys named Tarik (1,199) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 10 | #3,944 (1958) | #3,966 |
| 1960s | 106 | #1,642 (1969) | #2,634 |
| 1970s | 764 | #795 (1978) | #1,027 |
| 1980s | 637 | #1,067 (1983) | #1,203 |
| 1990s | 1,199 | #849 (1996) | #1,040 |
| 2000s | 743 | #1,353 (2000) | #1,783 |
| 2010s | 498 | #2,109 (2017) | #2,551 |
| 2020s | 224 | #2,775 (2021) | #3,177 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tarik in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 14,402 of them was named Tarik, which outranked 88.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).