Aboubakar

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aboubakar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and French (Côte d’Ivoire), written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon1 in 1K
  • FRFrance1 in 48K
  • TDChad1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.8K

across 7 countries

Sources
162

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 48K

France

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aboubakar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon#391,9283K rec.Aboubakar28
FR France1,4255.6K rec.1 in 48K1.4KAboubakar162
CI Côte d’Ivoire#680725771 rec.396Aboubakar24
US United States2071.1K rec.1 in 1.6M207Aboubakar63
BE Belgium146236 rec.10Aboubakar19
ES Spain12642 rec.1 in 397K126Aboubakar14
NG Nigeria100182 rec.Aboubakar13
DE Germany81110 rec.1Aboubakar23
BF Burkina Faso#3757980 rec.Aboubakar10
LY Libya73151 rec.Aboubakar7
DZ Algeria6990 rec.Aboubakar6
TD Chad#2264125 rec.Aboubakar15

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • French14K64%
  • French (Côte d’Ivoire)5.2K24%
  • English5132%
  • Arabic4482%
  • Spanish3061%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French13,94764%
French (Côte d’Ivoire)5,17924%
English5132%
Arabic4482%
Spanish3061%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Aboubakar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name5.9K records spelled Aboubakar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Abou-Bakar

  • Spanish given name440 records spelled Aboubakar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Cameroon, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ąbõubåkãř

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time

024682000201020208 · 2019

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Aboubakar in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1998–2025
Yearrecords
19986
20047
20075
20096
20106
20156
20198
20207
20218
20226
20236
20258

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)12 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1900195020002050Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, b. 1916Aboubacar Somparé, b. 1944Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, b. 1968Titi Camara, b. 1972Aboubacar Sankhare, b. 1978Aboubacar Tambadou, b. 1987Aboubakar Camara, b. 1994Aboubakar Kamara, b. 1995Aboubacar Keita, b. 2000Dango Ouattara, b. 2002

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 34 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Aboubakar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.4K#641
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies396#1,208
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020207#37,614
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)126#13,142
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)115#6,556
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199127
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)20#85,577
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)20#83,413
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#25,170
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)20#23,551
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)19#25,034
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)11#23,358

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aboubakar?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Aboubakar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Aboubakar have the most bearers?
Aboubakar is most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is most often spelled aboubakar.
How common is Aboubakar compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Aboubakar is the 39th most common given name of 9,502 given names recorded there.
Is Aboubakar a male or female name?
Aboubakar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aboubakar” — the 39th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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