Given name & surname
Aboubacar
Aboubacar is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic أَبُو بَكْر; its root is Arabic ء ب و.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aboubacar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 489
- 489 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,250 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +22%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,250 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 22.2% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (7). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 633 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aboubacar’s family of names
Aboubacar may belong to the same name family as ABOUBACARR. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aboubacar
- Sangoulé LamizanaPresident of Upper Volta and Burkina Faso (1916-2005)
- Aboubacar Somparéformer President of the National Assembly of Guinea (1944-2017)
- Demba CamaraGuinean footballer (born 1994)
- Aboubacar KeitaAmerican soccer playerborn 2000
- Toumba DiakitéGuinean military personnel1968–2026
- Aboubacar BangouraGuinean footballerborn 1982
- Aboubacar Syllaassociation football playerborn 1993
- Aboubacar SyllaGuinean footballer (born 1983)
- Aboubacar CamaraGuinean footballer (born 1993)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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