Babacar
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BAH-buh-kar
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Babacar is a boys' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Babacar mean?
Arabic: Wolof (Senegalese) form of Abu Bakr
The Senegalese form of Abu Bakr, the first caliph and a close companion of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Babacar a girl's or a boy's name?
Babacar is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Babacar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Babacar, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
Half of all the boys named Babacar in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Babacar in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 5 | #12,232 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,572 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,013 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,909 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,572 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,137 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,824 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,341 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
Nicknames for Babacar
- Baba
Names like Babacar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Muhammad, Hamza, Abdullah, Zayd, Umar, Amir, Mustafa, Zamir, Ahmir, Nasir, Ammar
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Babacar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/babacar, updated 20 October 2026.