Tariq

Where Tariq comes from

Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (ṭāriq, “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, “to knock, to rap”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Tariq
  • Arabic
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 670
    Tariq ibn Ziyad born
    8th-century Muslim general
  2. 1943
    Tariq Ali born
    British political activist, writer, and historian
  3. 1963
    First appearance
    #4,048 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1998
    Peak, #444
    514 babies named Tariq — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #738.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Tariq ibn Ziyad · 8th-century Muslim general, 670–720
  • Tariq Ali · British political activist, writer, and historian, born 1943
  • Tariq Aziz · Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein, 1936–2015
  • Tariq Ramadan · Swiss Muslim scholar, born 1962
  • Tariq Lamptey · Ghanaian association football player, born 2000

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.