Abubakar
Abubakar was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,241 among boys’ names; 957 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Abubakar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Abubakar?
#3,241 among boys’ names, 2025
Abubakar fell from #2,766 in 2015 to #3,241 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 22.4 to 21.1 per million.
58 babies in 2017, the peak
Abubakar peaked in 2017, when 58 boys were given it, #2,269 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,241 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 50 | #2,637 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 43 | #2,896 | 25.1 |
| 2022 | 48 | #2,716 | 27.5 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,775 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,586 | 28.4 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,941 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,471 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,269 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 53 | #2,412 | 27.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,766 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,703 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,496 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,001 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,605 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,707 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,474 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,921 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,902 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,071 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,462 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,002 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,874 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,907 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,118 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,060 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,338 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,465 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,118 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,181 | 5.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,700 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,420 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,523 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,386 | 2.8 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,849 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Abubakar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Abubakar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Abubakar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Abubakar, and how old are they?
An estimated 946 Americans named Abubakar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,155 people named Abubakar (6 women and girls, 1,149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 691 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Abubakar born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 5 | #809 | 5.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,580 | 0.1× |
Where Abubakar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Abubakar is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1977 it was given 5.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Abubakar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,411 babies since 1880, Abubakar is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 155 babies (23%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Abubakar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Abubakar and names like it
- Compare Abubakar and AbubakrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Abubakar.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Abubakar alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.