Given name & surname
Abubacar
Abubacar is a surname from Arabic. It is used in Maranao.
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 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Abubacar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,024 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,024 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2009.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Abubacar’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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