girls:
7 births since 1998
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
6.6k births since 1963
#1441 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1963
#3306 (57th percentile)
The name Tariq is the #3,306 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,644 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 57.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,441 (68.6% percentile) for all time with 6,637 births since 1963. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1998.
Tariq first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Tariq is available in 57 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023 (57 years for boys and 1 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 Tariq has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tariq reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 48.5% percentile (ranked #410) with 253 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 253 births per million (ranked 48.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tariq ranks #770 for boys (15.5% percentile) with 80 births per million, which is 31.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tariq reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #872) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tariq".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Tariq. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Tariq is pronounced as TAH-rihk, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-REEK, at 17.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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