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Abubakar

#3,241 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Abu Bakr

Abubakar has been given to 957 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,241 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Abubakar, 2025

1 in 92,100

Abubakar over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Abubakar: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Abu Bakr

Arabic

What Abubakar means

Abubakar is a form of Abu Bakr.

Origin, language, and formation

Abubakar is used in Hausa and Tausug. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Abu Bakr.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Abubakar is pronounced /ʔà.búː.bá.kàr/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 957 boys were recorded with the name Abubakar between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,269 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,586 in 2020 to #3,241 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,766 in 2015 to #3,241 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Abubakar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,241
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Abubakar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Abubakar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Abubakars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Abubakar was born before 2015 — so the typical Abubakar is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
957
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (416).

Is Abubakar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−604
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−655
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−475
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.1%
Peak was 2017 (58)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,269
2017

Spellings of Abubakar

Abubakar is the most-used spelling, taking 54.1% of the 1,770 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Abubakar is used

Across 1910–2025, Abubakar was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 185,938 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Abubakar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Abubakar around the world

Where Abubakar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2009
    #626
    in 2009
  • France
    2007–2025
    #3,385
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Abubakar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,241
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 655
Best rank ever
#2,269
2017
Peak year
2017
58 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
957
Count in 2025
36

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Abubakar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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