Boubakar
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: DGE, 2024
Boubakar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Burkina Faso than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 110K
- ESSpain1 in 781K
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.
- Burkina Faso (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Burkina Faso, 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boubakar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF Burkina Faso | #887 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Boubakar | 7 |
| ML Mali | #299 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Boubakar | 14 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Boubakar | 8 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 135 | Boubakar | 8 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Boubakar | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | Boubakar | 10 |
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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024). 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)- Boubakar Bab. 1935NENigerien mathematician
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 64 | #22,649 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 57 | #11,492 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #70 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Boubakar a male or female name?
- Boubakar is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2022).
- In which country does Boubakar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Boubakar in Burkina Faso, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boubakar.
- How common is the name Boubakar?
- In Spain, the national register counted 64 people named Boubakar, about 1 in 781 thousand residents.
- How common is Boubakar compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Boubakar is the 887th most common given name of 2,590 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boubakar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boubakarThe 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, “Boubakar” — the 887th most common given name in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.