Abubakar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Noble
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 33 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɑɓuɓɑkɑɾ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Abubakar is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, 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.
- 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
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Noble
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Abubakar 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Abubakar is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
first Khalifa after the death of
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
The first Khalifa after Prophet
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Cebuano, a Moro surname from Arabic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Abubakar Tafawa Balewab. 1912NGNigerian politician (1912-1966)
- A. A. Rahimb. 1920INnot in their usual nameIndian politician (1920–1995)
- Abubakar Siddiqueb. 1934BDBangladeshi writer (1934–2023)
- Abubakar Rimib. 1940NGNigerian politician
- Abubakar Audub. 1947NGNigerian politician (1947-2015)
- Abubakar Atiku Bagudub. 1961NGNigerian politician
- Bukola Sarakib. 1962NGnot in their usual nameNigerian politician, Waziri of Ilorin, senate president of the federal republic of Nigeria 2015-2019
- Abubakar Sani Bellob. 1967NGNigerian politician
- Abubakar Shekaub. 1973NGleader of a Nigerian militant group (1973-2021)
- Abubakar Salimb. 1993GBBritish actor and game designer
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)68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 594 | #37,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 237 | #14,545 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 237 | #14,492 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #16,706 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #20,497 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Abubakar mean, and where does it come from?
- Noble Recorded by The book of African names.
- What are other forms of the name Abubakar?
- In the etymology graph, Ebubekir, Aboubacar and Boubacar are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Abubakar?
- In Swahili /ɑɓuɓɑkɑɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Abubakar a male or female name?
- Abubakar is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; India (India Names Dataset): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Abubakar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Abubakar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled abubakar.
- Where is Abubakar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Abubakar 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 Abubakar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,155 people named Abubakar in 2020, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
- How common is Abubakar compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Abubakar is the 8th most common given name of 138,191 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/abubakarThe 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, “Abubakar” — the 8th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.