Abubakar
#3,240 for boys in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · boys
- 2017 · 58 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 957since 1977
Abubakar over time
Rank among boys' names. Abubakar has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,240 | 36 |
| 2024 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,895 | 43 |
| 2022 | #2,717 | 48 |
| 2021 | #2,775 | 45 |
| 2020 | #2,586 | 49 |
| 2019 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #2,412 | 53 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #2,705 | 44 |
| 2013 | #3,497 | 30 |
| 2012 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #3,708 | 28 |
| 2009 | #3,476 | 31 |
| 2008 | #3,921 | 26 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #5,072 | 17 |
| 2005 | #4,464 | 19 |
| 2004 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #4,341 | 16 |
| 1998 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #5,187 | 11 |
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| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Abubakar! It came in at #5,845, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Abubakar is popular in 1996
No state had 5 or more boys named Abubakar in 1996, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Abubakar
- 603 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #3,240)
- 654 spots since 2020 (#2,586 → #3,240)
- 474 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,240)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2017 at #2,270 (58 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,913 boys born in 2017 were named Abubakar (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,447 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.5% of all boys named Abubakar (416) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,385 (1982) | #6,454 |
| 1990s | 55 | #4,341 (1999) | #6,538 |
| 2000s | 200 | #3,476 (2009) | #4,481 |
| 2010s | 416 | #2,270 (2017) | #2,938 |
| 2020s | 271 | #2,586 (2020) | #2,808 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Abubakar in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 172,209 of them was named Abubakar, which outranked 50.8% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,878Zakariya12
- #4,878Zebediah12
- #4,878Zohaib12
- #5,187Abubakar11
- #5,187Abdon11
- #5,187Adarsh11
- #5,187Adeyemi11
- #5,535Aaronmichael10
- #5,535Acie10
- #5,535Afton10
Tied with 347 names at #5,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.