Târiq

given name · Latin script

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

Târiq is a given name written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (ṭāriq, “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, “to knock, to rap”).

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Târiq: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Târiq
  1. Arabicطَارِقṭāriq“messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”(measured from records)
  2. Arabic rootطَرَقَṭaraqa“to knock, to rap”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (ṭāriq, “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, “to knock, to rap”)

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

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

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Tarek Fatah, b. 1949Tarek 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. 1995
  • Tarek Fatahb. 1949CAnot in their usual namePakistan-born Canadian Islamism critic and non-fiction writer
  • Tarek William Saabb. 1962VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan politician
  • Tarek Kamelb. 1962EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian expert in global Internet governance issues
  • 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 Boudalib. 1979FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (born 1979)
  • Tarek Hamedb. 1988EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
  • Taz Skylar Van Dammeb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
  • Tarek Yaacoubnot in their usual nameactor
  • Tarik BouarraraDZnot in their usual nameactor

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(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Târiq mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (ṭāriq, “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, “to knock, to rap”) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 5 other sources.
Is Târiq a male or female name?
Târiq 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.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Târiq”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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