Tareq
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tæɹɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tareq is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Tariq.
- JOJordan≈1 in 518(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.4K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 2.8K
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 Tareq 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 518 (inferred from the name graph)
≈68,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tarek 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)
- Arabicطَارِقṭāriq“messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”(inferred from the name graph)via Tariq
- Arabic rootطَرَقَṭaraqa“to knock, to rap”(inferred from the name graph)via Tariq
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Tariq.
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tareq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #106 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Tarek | 84 |
| JO Jordan | #228 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 518 | — | Tareq | 112 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #667 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Tareq | 112 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Tareq | 70 |
| US United States | — | 3,871as Tarek | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Tareq | 224 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #419 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Tareq | 104 |
| KW Kuwait | #294 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Tareq | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21 | 1 in 823K | 95 | Tareq | 21 |
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 wgnd-eg-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
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 42 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,629 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 21 | #11,385 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 16 | #22,173 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #11,629 |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Tareq mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Tariq. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Tareq?
- A machine transcription gives /tæɹɛk/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Tareq a male or female name?
- Tareq 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 Tareq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 68 thousand people named Tareq in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tarek.
- How common is the name Tareq?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21 people named Tareq, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.
- How common is Tareq compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Tareq is the 106th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tareq?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tareqThe 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, “Tareq” — the 106th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.