Tarik

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Tarik is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 15th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: morning star; voyager; historical name.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco1 in 800◐
  • OMOman1 in 836
  • PKPakistan1 in 1.1K

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

≈18K ●

across 8 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
332 ●

370K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.1K ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

TariqLatin · Urdu●180K records
তারিকBengali · Bangla●92 records
ทารักThai · Thai●60 records
타릭Hangul · Korean●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tariq in PK Pakistan, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Tarak in IN India, BD Bangladesh and ทารักษ์ in TH Thailand.

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●

morning star; voyager; historical name

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tarik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—252,661127K rec.—752Tarak111
PK Pakistan#15168,63816K rec.—listedTariq130
MA Morocco#6519,20618K rec.——Tarik107
GB United Kingdom#81918,23413K rec.—3Tariq153
SA Saudi Arabia#7911,9334.2K rec.——Tariq150
DE Germany—9,8249.6K rec.—1Tarik133
TR Türkiye—7,7598.3K rec.—#92Tarik76
US United States—7,682111K rec.1 in 43K7.7KTariq332
SY Syria#5507,0208.3K rec.—1Tarik22
FR France—3,815△37 rec.1 in 18K3.8K—6
AU Australia—3,7174.8K rec.—4Tariq106
AE United Arab Emirates#903,4524.1K rec.——Tariq130

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

Languages●

  • Hindi56K20%
  • French47K17%
  • English46K16%
  • Arabic32K11%
  • Portuguese17K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi56,31120%
French47,06817%
English45,87816%
Arabic32,10911%
Portuguese16,9436%

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◐

Tarik is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name6.9K records spelled Tarik3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Ethiopia

    Also written Tárik, Tārik

  • Croatian given name4.5K records spelled Tarik42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тарик, Tariq, Тарік, Tarique, Târik

  • Indonesian given name3.5K records spelled Tarik5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Morocco, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Ťãrík, Täřìk, Ťãŕîk, Tàrìk

  • Hungarian given name1.6K records spelled Tarik5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary, United States, Morocco

    Also written Tàrik, Táŕík, Tárik, Tárík

  • Polish given name916 records spelled Tarik6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Netherlands, Morocco

    Also written Tărîķ, Ťārīk, Tărìk, Tàrik, Tárik

52 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●

Tarik 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.

  • visitor

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In Malay, to pull (apply force to (something) so it comes towards one)

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

  • In bbc, stretch out straight, pull straight, as a rope

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

  • In Filipino, steepness (of a slope or incline)

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

  • In iba, classifier for bracelet or vein

    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●

02505007501K190019201940196019802000832 · 1992

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Tarik in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18993
19141
19191
19204
19232
19242
19253
19261
19271
19282
19291
19321
19332
19341
19362
19371
193910
19402
19415
19426
19432
19447
19452
194612
194711
194811
194915
195016
195116
195223
195315
195432
195532
195641
195746
195847
195946
196049
196157
196289
196382
1964103
1965108
1966129
1967137
1968145
1969150
1970196
1971190
1972234
1973228
1974259
1975298
1976393
1977310
1978410
1979386
1980371
1981490
1982640
1983663
1984786
1985665
1986535
1987698
1988640
1989629
1990737
1991777
1992832
1993783
1994655
1995525
1996284
1997281
1998196
199929
200853
201019
20113
20123
20131
2014154
201539

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Tarek Al-Wazir, b. 1971Tarik Saleh, b. 1972Black Thought, b. 1973Tareck El Aissami, b. 1974Tarek Boudali, b. 1979Tarik Elyounoussi, b. 1988Tarek Hamed, b. 1988Tarik Black, b. 1991Tarik Tissoudali, b. 1993Taz Skylar Van Damme, b. 1995

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 86 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Tarik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.1K#4,451
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.8K#3,055
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.3K#1,208
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2.8K#607
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,182
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1K#9,006
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—732#2,116
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—713#483
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—699#7,192
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025672#245
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—666#2,095

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 615 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tarik?
We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Tarik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Tarik have the most bearers?
Tarik is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled tarak.
How common is Tarik compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Tarik is the 15th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Tarik a male or female name?
Tarik 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 Tarik mean?
Recorded meaning: morning star; voyager; historical name
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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, “Tarik” — the 15th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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