Given name
Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Abu Bakr means “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
A transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (“father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”); its root is Arabic ء ب و.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Abu Bakr’s family of names
In German usage, Abu Bakr has a conventional equivalent in the Hausa form ABUBAKAR.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Abu Bakr
- A. P. J. Abdul KalamIndian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
- Abubaker Kaki KhamisAthletics competitor, middle distance runnerborn 1989
- Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court854–946
- Abu Bakr IINinth Mansa of the Mali Empire1300–1400
- Abu Bakr ibn UmarAlmoravid general1100–1088
- Abu Bakr ibn al-ArabiAndalusian judge and scholar (1076–1148)
- Abu Bakr al-KalabadhiSufi Maturidi scholar and Hanafi jurist950–990
- Abu Yahya ibn Abd al-HaqqMarinid ruler from 1244 to 12581207–1258
- Abu Bakar Ba'asyirIndonesian Islamistborn 1938
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