Tarik
given name · Latin script
Meaning: morning star; voyager; historical name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɑɹɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tarik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 663(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 15K
- OMOman≈1 in 677as Tariq
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tarik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 388 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 663 (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 named Tariq, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tariq in PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia, ES Spain and 2 more and Tarak in BD Bangladesh.
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)
morning star; voyager; historical name
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tarik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #11 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 690 | listed | Tariq | 153 |
| MA Morocco | #67 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 663 | — | Tarik | 115 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #54 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Tariq | 161 |
| BD Bangladesh | #462 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | listed | Tarak | 63 |
| JO Jordan | #317 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 879 | — | Tariq | 91 |
| OM Oman | #16 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 677 | — | Tariq | 65 |
| ES Spain | #941 | 3,340 | 1 in 15K | 3.3K | Tariq | 57 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tarik 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.
visitor
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Malay, to pull (apply force to (something) so it comes towards one)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bbc, stretch out straight, pull straight, as a rope
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Filipino, steepness (of a slope or incline)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In iba, classifier for bracelet or vein
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tarek Al-Wazirb. 1971DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Tarik Salehb. 1972SESwedish director of Egyptian origin
- Black Thoughtb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper
- 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)
- Tarik Elyounoussib. 1988MANorwegian association football player
- Tarek Hamedb. 1988EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
- Tarik Blackb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
- Tarik Tissoudalib. 1993NLMoroccan footballer
- Taz Skylar Van Dammeb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.3K | #1,208 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.8K | #607 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tarik?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑɹɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tarik mean, and where does it come from?
- morning star; voyager; historical name Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Tarik a male or female name?
- Tarik 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 are other forms of the name Tarik?
- In the etymology graph, Tariq, Tarek and Tarık are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tarik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 339 thousand people named Tariq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tarik?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,340 people named Tarik, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Tarik compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tarik is the 11th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tarik?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tarikThe 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, “Tarik” — the 11th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.