Given name & surname
Tawfiq
“one who is successful”
Tawfiq is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is successful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is successful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tawfiq through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 110 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,607 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,607 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 355 as a first name in 2020; 162 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.
Tawfiq’s family of names
Tawfiq has a related form in Tawfeag. Tawfiq has a related form in Tawfeeg. Tawfiq has a related form in Tawfi'.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tawfiq
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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