Boubacar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bubakaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boubacar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 231(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 19K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 136
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 136 (inferred from the name graph)
≈92,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boubacar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #15 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 136 | 4 | Boubacar | 23 |
| SN Senegal | #27 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 231 | 37 | Boubacar | 56 |
| NE Niger | #5 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 577 | 6 | Boubacar | 27 |
| ML Mali | #10 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 20 | Boubacar | 38 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1.7K | Boubacar | 203 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,405 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Boubacar | 42 |
| MR Mauritania | #85 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Boubacar | 15 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Boubacar Traoréb. 1942MLMalian musician (born 1942)
- Ibrahim Boubacar Keïtab. 1945MLMalian politician
- Boubacar Boris Diopb. 1946SNSengalese writer
- Amadou Cisséb. 1948NEnot in their usual nameNigerien Prime Minister
- Boubacar Barryb. 1979CIIvorian footballer
- Boubacar Sanogob. 1982CIIvorian footballer
- Boubacar Konéb. 1984MLivoirien footballer
- Boubacar Fofanab. 1989GNGuinean footballer
- Boubacar Kamarab. 1999FRFrench footballer (born 1999)
- Boubacar Traoréb. 2001MLMalian association football player (born 2001)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.7K | #578 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #2,254 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.2K | #1,129 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 37 | #35 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 20 | #10 |
| NE Niger | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #12 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #12 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Boubacar?
- A machine transcription gives /bubakaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Boubacar a male or female name?
- Boubacar 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.
- What are other forms of the name Boubacar?
- In the etymology graph, Abubakar, Ebubekir and Aboubacar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Boubacar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Boubacar in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boubacar.
- How common is the name Boubacar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,405 people named Boubacar, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Boubacar compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Boubacar is the 15th most common given name of 523 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boubacar?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boubacarThe 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, “Boubacar” — the 15th most common given name in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.