Abubakr
Masculine · “father of the young camel”
Abubakr means father of the young camel — an Arabic teknonym, and the name of the Prophet's closest companion and the first caliph.
How old is the name Abubakr?
Abubakr first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Abubakr is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Abubakr are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Abubakr most popular?
Abubakr peaked in 2024, reaching #1957 nationally. Today it ranks #1992, 35 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From abu bakr to Abubakr
The story of Abubakr
Abu Bakr was the Prophet's closest companion, his father-in-law, and the man who hid with him in the cave during the migration to Medina; he became the first caliph and ruled for two years. Arabic kunyas of this kind — father of so-and-so — often replaced given names entirely. The name is in current American use.
Meaning
father of the young camel
From the Arabic abu, 'father of', and bakr, 'a young camel'. Arabic kunya names of this form are affectionate rather than literal; the man's given name was Abdullah. Bakr also carries a sense of earliness. The construction is documented and ordinary in Arabic.
How the name formed
- abu bakr
- Abubakr
Related forms: أبو بكر · Abu Bakr · Ebubekir
Pronouncing Abubakr
ah-boo-BAK-r
Three syllables, stress on the third. The final r is a syllable of its own in Arabic and English speakers usually add a vowel.
Nicknames for Abubakr
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 202480 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1957reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −5.0%76 in 2025, from 80
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Abubakr in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- أبو بكر in Arabic — transliteration
- Abu Bakr in English — spelling variant
- Ebubekir in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Pennsylvania, California.
Abubakrs among us
people named Abubakr are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 22,475 born in 2025 was named Abubakr
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Drue test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Abubakr's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Drue climbed just as high around 1963, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Drue's path sketches the road Abubakr is walking now.
Abubakr is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Abubakr is headed
Abubakr looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 29% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Abubakr beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Abubakr in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The first caliph and the Prophet's closest companion carries it.
- The kunya construction — naming a man as somebody's father — is genuinely interesting.
- Bakr is available as a short form that is a real Arabic name.
- The run-together spelling is one of several in use.
- The final consonant cluster is difficult in English.
- It reads as specifically Muslim and strongly traditional.
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Frequently asked
- How many Abubakrs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Abubakr are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Abubakr in 2025?
- Abubakr ranks #1992 among US boy names in 2025, with 76 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Abubakr?
- About 1 in every 22,475 US boys born in 2025 was named Abubakr — 76 in all.
- Will my child share the name Abubakr with classmates?
- Abubakr will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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