# Abubakr (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/abubakr/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 813 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 813 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 682, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 4,824 |
| 2012 | 18 | 5,036 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,316 |
| 2014 | 29 | 3,617 |
| 2015 | 33 | 3,368 |
| 2016 | 33 | 3,358 |
| 2017 | 35 | 3,249 |
| 2018 | 45 | 2,709 |
| 2019 | 50 | 2,583 |
| 2020 | 44 | 2,759 |
| 2021 | 42 | 2,918 |
| 2022 | 56 | 2,469 |
| 2023 | 65 | 2,188 |
| 2024 | 80 | 1,957 |
| 2025 | 76 | 1,992 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 24 | 1,087 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,367 |
| 2013 | 35 | 850 |
| 2014 | 41 | 765 |
| 2015 | 31 | 950 |
| 2016 | 36 | 870 |
| 2017 | 36 | 861 |
| 2018 | 28 | 1,013 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,030 |
| 2020 | 31 | 921 |
| 2021 | 36 | 854 |
| 2022 | 33 | 925 |
| 2023 | 34 | 910 |
| 2024 | 33 | 945 |
| 2025 | 34 | 914 |

## People named Abubakr

- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli, 10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court
- Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Almoravid general
- Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Andalusian judge and scholar (1076–1148)
- Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Turtushi, Andalusian Muslim jurist and political theorist
- Abu Bakr Shawky, Egyptian-Austrian film director
- Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Rahman
- Avempace, Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
- Abubaker Kaki Khamis, Athletics competitor, middle distance runner
- Aboubakar Oumarou, Cameroonian footballer
- Abu Bakar az-Zabidi, 10th century poet, philosopher and scholar of al-Andalus
- Al-Qaffāl al-Shāshī, faqih and linguist (904-975)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.