Given name & surname
Mubarak
“one who is blessed”
Mubarak is a variant of Moubarak. One interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Original Arabicمبارك
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mubarak is a variant of Moubarak. One interpretation is “one who is blessed.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic مبارك (mubārak, “blessed”); its root is Arabic ب ر ك.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mubarak through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 565
- 565 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,147 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −11%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,147 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 10.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 2019. In 2025, Minnesota had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (10). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 872 as a first name in 2020; 1,020 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mubarak’s family of names
Mubarak has a related form in Moubarak. In English usage, Mubarak was borrowed from the Arabic form مبارك.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mubarak
- Mubarak Al-Sabahruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1896 to 19151838–1915
- Mubarak MarzouqKuwaiti footballerborn 1961
- Ibn al-Mustawfi،Kurdish poet and historian1170–1239
- Majd ad-Dīn Ibn AthirMedieval Arab biographer, linguist and historian1149–1210
- Mubarak AwadAmerican psychologistborn 1943
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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