Tariq

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tarik in MA Morocco, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 8 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●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Tariq is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name11K records spelled Tariq8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iraq

  Also written Ṭāriq, T̤āriq, Tāriq, Táriq, Ṭariq

• Danish given name2.6K records spelled Tariq8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Târîq, Tãrîq

• Croatian given name1.3K records spelled Tariq42 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Tarik, Тарик, Тарік, Tarique, Târik

• Polish given name919 records spelled Tariq5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

  Also written Ťậřĭq, Ťāřîq, Tãrîq, Táriq

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●

Tariq 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.

• ‘One who knocks at the door at night’, ‘nocturnal visitor’; also ‘morning star’. Tarub @ ‘Enraptured’.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, The 86th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Arabic, nocturnal visitor

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, morning star; Qur'anic name

  as a name·African Muslim Names

• In Arabic, star, visitor

  as a name·African Muslim Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1963–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tariq ibn Ziyadb. 670DZ8th-century Muslim general
• Tariq Azizb. 1936IQIraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein (1936-2015)
• Tariq Alib. 1943PKBritish political activist, writer, and historian (born 1943)
• Tariq Anwarb. 1945GBBritish film editor
• Tariq Ramadanb. 1962CHSwiss Muslim scholar
• Tarek Al-Wazirb. 1971DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
• Tareck El Aissamib. 1974VEnot in their usual nameVice President of Venezuela from 2017 to 2018
• Tarek Hamedb. 1988EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
• Taz Skylar Van Dammeb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
• Tariq Lampteyb. 2000GBGhanaian association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 309 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tariq?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Tariq (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Tariq have the most bearers?

Tariq is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled tarak.

How common is Tariq compared with other names?

In Pakistan, Tariq is the 15th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.

Is Tariq a male or female name?

Tariq 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 Tariq mean?

Recorded meaning: morning star, night star (see surat al-Taariq