Taariq
given name · Latin script
Meaning: morning star; one who knocks
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təɛɹik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Taariq is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 32K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 81K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
morning star; one who knocks
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Taariq 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Taariq | 38 |
| US United States | 250 | 1 in 1.3M | 250 | Taariq | 118 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | Taariq | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Taariq | 5 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Taariq | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Taariq | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 7 | 1 in 107K | 7 | Taariq | 2 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 250 | #33,205 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Taariq mean, and where does it come from?
- morning star; one who knocks Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Taariq?
- A machine transcription gives /təɛɹik/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Taariq a male or female name?
- Taariq 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.
- In which country does Taariq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 696 people named Taariq in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled taariq.
- How common is the name Taariq?
- In the United States, the national register counted 250 people named Taariq in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/taariqThe 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, “Taariq”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.