Aboubakar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/abubakaʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aboubakar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 884(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 46K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 923
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 884 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, 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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aboubakar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #51 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 884 | — | Aboubakar | 31 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | 396 | Aboubakar | 24 |
| TD Chad | #24 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Aboubakar | 16 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 1.4K | Aboubakar | 171 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Aboubakar | 14 |
| ML Mali | #184 | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Aboubakar | 10 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Aboubakar | 6 |
| US United States | — | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 207 | Aboubakar | 69 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
- Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizanab. 1916BFnot in their usual namePresident of Upper Volta and Burkina Faso (1916-2005)
- Aboubacar Somparéb. 1944GNnot in their usual nameformer President of the National Assembly of Guinea (1944-2017)
- Aboubacar Sidiki Diakitéb. 1968GNnot in their usual nameGuinean military personnel
- Titi Camarab. 1972GNnot in their usual nameGuinean-French association football player
- Aboubacar Sankhareb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer
- Aboubacar Tambadoub. 1987MLnot in their usual nameMalian footballer
- Aboubakar Camarab. 1994GNGuinean footballer (born 1994)
- Aboubakar Kamarab. 1995FRMauritanian and French association football player
- Aboubacar Keitab. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Dango Ouattarab. 2002BFnot in their usual nameBurkinabè association football player (born 2002)
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 34 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 396 | #1,208 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Aboubakar?
- A machine transcription gives /abubakaʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Aboubakar a male or female name?
- Aboubakar 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 Aboubakar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Aboubakar in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aboubakar.
- How common is the name Aboubakar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 207 people named Aboubakar in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Aboubakar compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Aboubakar is the 51st most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aboubakarThe 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, “Aboubakar” — the 51st most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.