In Sweden, Taraka was reported as a first name for two men and zero or at most one woman as of December 31, 2022. The source attributes the figures to Statistics Sweden (SCB). No reliable worldwide total was found, so this dated Swedish count does not establish how rare Taraka is globally.
What the Swedish count says
Allt om Namn reports that, on December 31, 2022, two men in Sweden had Taraka as a first name, and both used it as their call name. Its figures are attributed to SCB. For women, the page reports zero or at most one person with Taraka as a first name; small counts may be suppressed or shown as zero in its chart. The page calls Taraka “Ett mycket ovanligt förnamn” (“a very unusual first name”), a characterization of its Swedish figures rather than an official global classification. Allt om Namn: Taraka
Is Taraka rare worldwide?
The Swedish snapshot supports describing the name as very uncommon there, but it cannot answer how many people worldwide are named Taraka. No global count was found, and the available sources do not provide aligned country-by-country figures. A national count also depends on the date, who is included, and whether the statistic counts first names or call names.
A US name-reference result says Taraka is outside the Social Security Administration’s top 1,000 girls’ names, but supplies no exact rank or birth count. It does not establish the year, boys’ usage, or worldwide prevalence, so it cannot be directly compared with Sweden’s count. US name-reference result
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What does Taraka mean?
Meaning and frequency are separate questions: a word’s dictionary senses do not tell us how many people bear it as a name. In the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, tārakā is listed with meanings including “a star,” “a meteor, falling star,” and “the pupil of the eye.” The entry identifies it as the feminine form of tāraka. Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary scan
A 2013 discussion also mentions a related sense of carrying someone across or rescuing, citing Sanskrit dictionaries. That is related-form evidence, not a frequency measure or proof that every person named Taraka uses the name with that meaning. Taraka.pl article
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