Tarēk
surname · Latin script
Tarēk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 639(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 657
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 639 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Tarek in EG Egypt, SY Syria, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tarek (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord som betyder ’den som knackar på dörren; gäst på natten’. En känd svensk namnbärare är tv-kocken Tareq Taylor (f. 1969).
Sources 3
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tarēk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #54 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 657 | — | Tarek | 195 |
| DZ Algeria | #67 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Tarek | 86 |
| TN Tunisia | #23 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 639 | 1.7K | Tarek | 101 |
| SY Syria | #197 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Tarek | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #284 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Tarek | 129 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #107 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Tarek | 137 |
| US United States | — | 3,871 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Tarek | 335 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Tarēk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Tarēk in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tarek.
- How common is the name Tarēk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,871 people named Tarēk in 2020, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Tarēk compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Tarēk is the 54th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tar%C4%93kThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Tarēk” — the 54th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.