girls:
11 births since 1976
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.1k births since 1958
#1905 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1958
#4265 (45th percentile)
The name Tarik is the #4,265 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,121 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 44.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,905 (58.4% percentile) for all time with 4,110 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1976.
Tarik first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Tarik is available in 65 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tarik has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tarik reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 19.9% percentile (ranked #623) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 82 births per million (ranked 19.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tarik ranks #880 for boys (3.4% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 24.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tarik reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #759) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tarik".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tarik. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Tarik is pronounced as TAH-rihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-rihk, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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