Tarik comes from the Bosnian tradition, meaning The one who knocks at the door.
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How popular is Tarik?
1996peak year
Today, Tarik is rarely chosen — ranked well outside the top 1,000 (around #2916), with only about 44 babies given the name per year. But it wasn't always this way. At its peak in 1996, 164 babies were given the name (ranked #852 nationally). Its strongest stretch was the 1990s. Tarik has been declining in recent years. In all, around 4,156 babies have been registered as Tarik since 1880.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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