Abubàkar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Abubàkar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr).
- SESweden1 in 27K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 88K
- FIFinland1 in 91K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
1,155 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Abubakar in NG Nigeria, US United States, PK Pakistan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abubàkar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,155 | 1 in 288K | 1.1K | Abubakar | 198 |
| SE Sweden | — | 380 | 1 in 27K | 380 | Abubakar | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 220 | 1 in 227K | 237 | — | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Abubakar | 72 |
| NG Nigeria | #8 | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Abubakar | 143 |
| FI Finland | — | 61 | 1 in 91K | 84 | — | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | Abubakar | 21 |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | 1 |
1,155 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Abubàkar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr). Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Abubàkar a male or female name?
- Abubàkar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Abubàkar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Abubàkar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abubakar.
- Where is Abubàkar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abubàkar is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Abubàkar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,155 people named Abubàkar in 2020, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
- How common is Abubàkar compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Abubàkar is the 8th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/abub%C3%A0karThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Abubàkar” — the 8th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.