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Abu Bakar name meaning

“father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”

Letters
8
Syllables
4
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 7.3%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s7.3%
1950s7.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Malay Names: AArabic origin

Abu Bakar is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'father of a young camel' or 'father of a person named Bakr'.

What does Abu Bakar mean?

Father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr

In Malay: bapa kepada anak unta muda; bapa kepada orang bernama Bakr

Sources (2)

About the name Abu Bakar

Abu Bakar is the Malay spelling of Abu Bakr (أبو بكر). Abu means 'father' and bakr means a young camel and is also a male name, so the name reads as 'father of a young camel' or 'father of a person named Bakr'. It is well known through Abu Bakr, a companion of Prophet Muhammad and the first caliph. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1950s with 3,122 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic
SyllablesA-bu Ba-kar
PartsAbu + Bakar
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptأبو بكر

Abu Bakar in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 1,492 · 7.3%
1950s
Boy: 3,122 · 7.1%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Abu Bakar as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Abu Bakr · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: أب · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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