Tareq
Tariq is an Arabic word and given name.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Tareq
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tariq is an Arabic word and given name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
Etymology
The Story of Tareq
Tareq first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1980, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1991: 14 births, good for #4,006 nationwide. About 29% of every Tareq on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Tareq last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 357 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Tareq
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Names that sound like Tareq
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About the name Tareq
Tareq is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1980 and has accumulated 357 births in the dataset. Tareq's peak popularity came in 1991 when it ranked #4,006. Use the chart and map above to compare Tareq's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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