Abu-Bakr
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- a-boo-BAKR
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,087 for boys
Abu-Bakr is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “father of the young camel”. In 2025 it ranked 2,087th for boys in the UK (12 babies).
What does Abu-Bakr mean?
Arabic
“father of the young camel”
Abu Bakr was the closest companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the first caliph of Islam.
Is Abu-Bakr a girl's or a boy's name?
Abu-Bakr is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Abu-Bakr in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,087th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 25,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were named Abu-Bakr, making it the 2,087th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,462nd. Its busiest year was 2016, with 28 boys.
Half of all the boys named Abu-Bakr in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 46 boys in the UK were given Abu-Bakr or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #715, up from #2,087 for this spelling alone.
- Abubakr 34
- Abu-Bakr 12
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,011th in England and Wales.
Abu-Bakr in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,087 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,328 |
| 2023 | 20 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 20 | #1,404 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,434 |
| 2020 | 18 | #1,462 |
| 2019 | 19 | #1,412 |
| 2018 | 27 | #1,119 |
| 2017 | 18 | #1,490 |
| 2016 | 28 | #1,109 |
| 2015 | 21 | #1,324 |
| 2014 | 21 | #1,308 |
| 2013 | 20 | #1,347 |
| 2012 | 16 | #1,622 |
| 2011 | 12 | #1,890 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,306 |
| 2009 | 11 | #1,959 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,384 |
| 2007 | 7 | #2,554 |
| 2006 | 11 | #1,742 |
| 2005 | 11 | #1,701 |
| 2004 | 12 | #1,494 |
| 2003 | 11 | #1,498 |
| 2002 | 12 | #1,312 |
| 2001 | 8 | #1,690 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,237 |
| 1999 | 3 | #3,043 |
| 1998 | 6 | #1,932 |
| 1997 | 6 | #1,853 |
| 1996 | 3 | #2,949 |
Names like Abu-Bakr
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Abdullah, Mustafa, Ahmed, Musa, Ibrahim, Zayd, Zayaan, Umar, Azaan, Abdulrahman, Zayan
Other spellings of Abu-Bakr
Names related to Abu-Bakr
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Abu-Bakr: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/abu-bakr, updated 20 October 2026.