Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Aboubakar isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1998. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aboubakar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 79
- 79 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #8,920 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,920 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 207 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.
Aboubakar’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Aboubakar
- Aboubakar KamaraMauritanian and French association football playerborn 1995
- Aboubakar SoumahoroItalian-Ivorian trade unionist, labor activist and politicianborn 1980
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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