Tarek

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tarek is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Synonym of pearl mullet.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt1 in 514◐
  • TNTunisia1 in 523
  • SYSyria1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈9.5K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
298 ●

118K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.8K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

TarekLatin · Arabic●139K records
ΤαρεκGreek · Greek●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Synonym of pearl mullet.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Tarek is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#4476,43147K rec.——Tarek184
SY Syria#21017,04318K rec.——Tarek60
TN Tunisia#257,6194.3K rec.—1.7KTarek96
DZ Algeria#1115,3905.8K rec.——Tarek79
SA Saudi Arabia#2714,0041.7K rec.——Tarek119
US United States—3,85120K rec.1 in 86K3.9KTarek298
GB United Kingdom—3,2991.3K rec.——Tarek112
FR France—2,4500 rec.1 in 28K2.5K—3
TR Türkiye—2,4352.6K rec.——Tarek33
LB Lebanon#3612,3132.1K rec.——Tarek87
AE United Arab Emirates#1632,1591.7K rec.——Tarek127
ES Spain—1,2951.2K rec.1 in 39K1.3KTarek72

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic139K36%
  • English86K22%
  • Bangla63K16%
  • French35K9%
  • Spanish9.1K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic139,25336%
English85,55922%
Bangla62,73716%
French34,9569%
Spanish9,0612%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tarek is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name103K records spelled Tarek53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ta'Rek, Ta-Rek, Tàrek, Tarék, Târék

  • Bangla given name65K records spelled Tarek89 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, Iraq, Syria

    Languages: Bangla, English, Arabic

    Also written Tareq, Tareque, তারেক, Táreq, Tãreq

  • Spanish given name16K records spelled Tarek99 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tarék, Tárek, Táŕék, Târêk, Ťăřěk

  • a separate given name2.9K records spelled Tarek3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Tunisia

    Also written Tárek, Tarék

  • Hindi given name2.0K records spelled Tarek16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Syria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Târêk, Tàrèk, Tãrëk, Ţarek, Tãrek

  • Danish given name2.0K records spelled Tarek22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Ťåřêk, Târëk, Tãrëk, Tãręk, Ťãrëk

  • Polish given name1.9K records spelled Tarek99 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Tàrék, Țặřěk, Ťarek, Ťäřëk, Ťărěk

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Tarek is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Tarek (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord som betyder ’den som knackar på dörren; gäst på natten’. En känd svensk namnbärare är tv-kocken Tareq Taylor (f. 1969).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, ) Tarik; Tariq: im 20. Jh. entlehn­ ter männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. täriq »der an die Tür klopft, nächtlicher

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In zlm, drawing (towards oneself or after oneself); to pull

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Malay, obsolete spelling of tarik

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, genitive plural of tarka

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019802000202064 · 1996

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Tarek in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1962–2025
Yearrecords
19626
19635
196511
19667
196714
196815
196918
197018
197121
197223
197320
197423
197525
197631
197727
197829
197925
198036
198128
198234
198320
198440
198555
198637
198743
198844
198946
199045
199158
199262
199360
199446
199552
199664
199757
199859
199950
200048
200146
200257
200344
200440
200545
200645
200733
200842
200944
201034
201130
201235
201338
201435
201546
201648
201756
201845
201928
202032
202133
202235
202337
202426
202522

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 63 years between 1962–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Tarek William Saab, b. 1962Tarek Kamel, b. 1962Tarek Al-Wazir, b. 1971Tareck El Aissami, b. 1974Tarek Boudali, b. 1979Tarek Hamed, b. 1988Taz Skylar Van Damme, b. 1995Tarek Salman, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Tarek
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,701
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.5K#1,728
TN TunisiaINS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022)19801.7K#8
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.3K#2,394
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,538
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#1,157
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020827—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—544#2,377
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—230#804
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026215#1,228
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—206#1,202
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022200—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 425 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tarek?
We estimate roughly 9.5 thousand people bear Tarek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Tarek have the most bearers?
Tarek is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled tarek.
How common is Tarek compared with other names?
In Egypt, Tarek is the 44th most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
Is Tarek a male or female name?
Tarek is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Tarek mean?
Recorded meaning: Synonym of pearl mullet.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tarek” — the 44th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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