Babacar
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Babacar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 17th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 182◐
- ESSpain1 in 36K
- FRFrance1 in 124K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 169 ●
- 1 in 36K ◐
across 8 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #17 | 3,704 | 1.5K rec. | — | 67 | Babacar | 59 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,396△ | 625 rec. | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Babacar | 42 |
| IT Italy | — | 713 | 738 rec. | — | 7 | Babacar | 31 |
| FR France | — | 545 | 4.2K rec. | 1 in 124K | 545 | Babacar | 169 |
| US United States | — | 399 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 834K | 399 | Babacar | 105 |
| BE Belgium | — | 186 | 186 rec. | — | — | Babacar | 17 |
| CA Canada | — | 140 | 99 rec. | — | 5 | Babacar | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | 85 | 79 rec. | — | 1 | Babacar | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 63 | 44 rec. | — | — | Babacar | 16 |
| MX Mexico | — | 58 | 61 rec. | — | — | Babacar | 1 |
| MA Morocco | — | 54 | 46 rec. | — | — | Babacar | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 352K | 29 | — | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French12K56%
- Spanish4K19%
- English1.8K8%
- Catalan1.4K7%
- Portuguese2691%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 12,032 | 56% |
| Spanish | 3,987 | 19% |
| English | 1,806 | 8% |
| Catalan | 1,396 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 269 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 12 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 10 |
| 2017 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1997–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Babacar Bab. 1930SNSenegalese politician
- Ababacar Samb Makharamb. 1934SNnot in their usual nameSenegalese film director (1934-1987)
- Babacar Gayeb. 1951SNSenegalese diplomat and general
- Babacar Niangb. 1958SNFrench athlete
- Babacar Camarab. 1981SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1981)
- Babacar Gueyeb. 1986SNSenegalese and French footballer
- Babacar Diallob. 1989SNfootballer
- Babacar Sarrb. 1991SNSenegalese footballer
- Babacar Guèyeb. 1994SNSenegalese association football player
- Babacar Niasseb. 1996SNSenegalese footballer
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 · 108 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Babacar?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Babacar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Babacar have the most bearers?
- Babacar is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled babacar.
- How common is Babacar compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Babacar is the 17th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Babacar a male or female name?
- Babacar 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
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, “Babacar” — the 17th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.