Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic تَوْفِيق; its root is Arabic و ف ق.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tawfik through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 285 as a first name in 2020; 1,043 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tawfik’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tawfik
- Tofiq BahramovAzerbaijani football referee (1925-1993)
- Tawfik ToubiPalestinian politician (1922-2011)
- Tawfik Abu Al-Hudaprime minister of the Emirate of Transjordan1892–1956
- Tawfiq al-SuwaidiIraqi politician1892–1968
- Tawfik HamidEgyptian authorborn 1961
- Taoufik HicheriTunisian association football playerborn 1965
- Tawfeek BarhomArab-Israeli actor of Palestinian descentborn 1990
- Tofig YagubluAzerbaijani politicianborn 1961
- Taoufik SalhiTunisian association football player (born 1979)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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