Throughout the world, Abū (أبو 
, Абу 
, Abū) is a widespread boy's forename. The first name Abū is habitual in Syria, where it is a widespread masculine name, Egypt, where it is a common masculine name, and Iraq (explore the name in all countries). Very seldom, Abū is the last name as well as the forename.
Abū is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Abu , the character from Disney's Aladdin; Abu Bakaar , the fictional character from 2008 film 'Iron Man'; Abu Nazir , the Fictional Character, Homeland and Abu Hassan , the operatic character in the opera Abu Hassan.
| abū ʿubaida muslim ibn abī karīma (b. 700) |
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| abū ishāq al-fazārī Ḥadīth scholar and historian (b. 800) |
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| abū ghānim al-khurāsānī Islamic jurist from Khurasan at end of 8th c., IR (b. 800) |
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| abū ḥanīfah al- nuʿmān ibn muḥammad Muslim historian, TN (b. 901) |
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| abū l-qāsim al-hasan 1st emir of Sicily, IT (b. 911) |
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| abū ʿalī ismāʿīl b. al-qāsim TR (b. 901) |
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| abū isḥāq al-ṣābī writer and poet of Abbasid era (b. 925) |
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| abū l-hasan al-qābisī TN (b. 936) |
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| abū zayd ḥasan ibn yazīd sīrāfī active 10th century (b. 950) |
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| abū jaʿfar aḥmad ibn ʿabd al-malik ibn saʿīd poet (b. 1101) |
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| abū muḥammad ʿabd allâh ibn barrī FR (b. 1106) |
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| abū al-ḥasan ʻalī ibn ʻuthmān makhzūmī (b. 1118) |
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| abū ṭāhir ṭarsūsī, muḥammad ibn ḥasan Persian author (b. 1150) |
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| abū zayd ibn muḥammad ibn abī zayd Persian potter (b. 1186) |
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| abū ‘amr ‘uthman ibn al-nābulusī administrator in Ayyubid Egypt (b. 1192) |
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