Boubacar
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boubacar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 244◐
- MLMali1 in 835
- ESSpain1 in 36K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.0K ●
- Sources
- 194 ●
- 1 in 36K ◐
across 10 countries
22K 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #26 | 2,757 | 979 rec. | — | 37 | Boubacar | 49 |
| FR France | — | 1,675 | 12K rec. | 1 in 41K | 1.7K | Boubacar | 194 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,405△ | 414 rec. | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Boubacar | 39 |
| ML Mali | #11 | 1,120 | 1K rec. | — | 20 | Boubacar | 30 |
| US United States | — | 869 | 4K rec. | 1 in 383K | 869 | Boubacar | 118 |
| BE Belgium | — | 660 | 680 rec. | — | 3 | Boubacar | 28 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #156 | 196 | 219 rec. | — | — | Boubacar | 15 |
| GN Guinea | #12 | 189 | 575 rec. | — | 4 | Boubacar | 22 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 174 | 187 rec. | — | — | Boubacar | 14 |
| IT Italy | — | 167 | 183 rec. | — | 5 | Boubacar | 13 |
| LY Libya | #875 | 103 | 176 rec. | — | — | Boubacar | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | — | 57 | 150 rec. | — | — | Boubacar | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French30K70%
- Spanish3.9K9%
- English2.7K6%
- Catalan1.4K3%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)5191%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 29,523 | 70% |
| Spanish | 3,938 | 9% |
| English | 2,669 | 6% |
| Catalan | 1,405 | 3% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 519 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 23 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 18 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 24 |
| 2012 | 18 |
| 2013 | 25 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 27 |
| 2017 | 23 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 23 |
| 2022 | 20 |
| 2023 | 16 |
| 2024 | 27 |
| 2025 | 21 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Boubacar Traoréb. 1942MLMalian musician (born 1942)
- Ibrahim Boubacar Keïtab. 1945MLMalian politician
- Boubacar Boris Diopb. 1946SNSengalese writer
- Amadou Cisséb. 1948NEnot in their usual nameNigerien Prime Minister
- Boubacar Barryb. 1979CIIvorian footballer
- Boubacar Sanogob. 1982CIIvorian footballer
- Boubacar Konéb. 1984MLivoirien footballer
- Boubacar Fofanab. 1989GNGuinean footballer
- Boubacar Kamarab. 1999FRFrench footballer (born 1999)
- Boubacar Traoréb. 2001MLMalian association football player (born 2001)
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 40 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Boubacar?
- We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Boubacar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Boubacar have the most bearers?
- Boubacar is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled boubacar.
- How common is Boubacar compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Boubacar is the 26th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Boubacar a male or female name?
- Boubacar 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, “Boubacar” — the 26th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.