Tariq
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The 86th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tæɹɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tariq 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.
- OMOman≈1 in 677(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 690
- JOJordan≈1 in 879
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 Tariq 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 677 (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tarik in MA Morocco 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, night star (see surat al-Taariq
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tariq is read(measured from records)
Tariq is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tariq in Urdu.
- English23%
The 86th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic11%
morning star, night star (see surat al-Taariq
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
nocturnal visitor
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
morning star; Qur'anic name
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
star, visitor
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tariq 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 |
| US United States | — | 7,707 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Tariq | 388 |
| OM Oman | #16 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 677 | — | Tariq | 65 |
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. 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)
Tariq is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘One who knocks at the door at night’, ‘nocturnal visitor’; also ‘morning star’. Tarub @ ‘Enraptured’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Tariq ibn Ziyadb. 670DZ8th-century Muslim general
- Tariq Azizb. 1936IQIraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein (1936-2015)
- Tariq Alib. 1943PKBritish political activist, writer, and historian (born 1943)
- Tariq Anwarb. 1945GBBritish film editor
- Tariq Ramadanb. 1962CHSwiss Muslim scholar
- 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 Hamedb. 1988EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian association football player
- Taz Skylar Van Dammeb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Tariq Lampteyb. 2000GBGhanaian association football player
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 85 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.7K | #2,932 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 107 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 25 | #2,932 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 7 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- What does the name Tariq mean?
- In English, The 86th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
- Where does the name Tariq come from?
- morning star, night star (see surat al-Taariq Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Tariq?
- A machine transcription gives /tæɹɪk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Tariq a male or female name?
- Tariq 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 Tariq?
- In the etymology graph, Tarek, Tarik and Tarık are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tariq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 339 thousand people named Tariq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tariq.
- How common is the name Tariq?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,707 people named Tariq in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Tariq compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Tariq is the 11th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tariqThe 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, “Tariq” — the 11th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.