first name
TARIK
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,190 people named Tarik, 44.4% reported their origin as White, 43.7% as Black and 5.8% as two or more races. 97.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tarik peaked in 1996, when 164 babies got the name.
At least 4,192 babies have been given the name since 1958. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Tarik by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #2,258. The largest share of babies named Tarik, 32.2%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tarik is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tarik has been most common in District of Columbia (5.1×), New York (3.7×), and New Jersey (3.5×), and least common in Ohio (0.38×).
2,080 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tarik, most common first.
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