Abu Bakr (name)

Abū Bakr (Arabic: أبو بكر‎) is an Arabic given name meaning "Father of a Young Camel" (Abu meaning 'Father of' and Bakr meaning 'Young Camel') that is widely used by Sunni Muslims.[1]

Abu Bakr
Calligraphic representation of
Abu Bakr al-Siddīq's name
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameSemitic (Arabic)
Meaning"Father of a Young Camel"

Other transliterations include Abu Bakar, Abu Bekr, Ebubekir, Aboubacar, Abubakar, etc. The two parts of the name can be written together, hyphenated, or separately.

The most famous person to carry this name was Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (c. 573–634), one of the companions of the prophet Muhammad and the first caliph of Islam. He was also Muhammad's father-in-law through Aisha. His real name was Abdullah, Abu Bakr being his kunya.

Persons with the name

People with the name include:

Early and medieval Islam
  • Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (c. 573–634)
  • Abu Bakr ibn Ali (died 680 in the Battle of Karbala)
  • Abu Bakr ibn Hasan ibn Ali (died 680 in the Battle of Karbala)
  • Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwān, was an Umayyad prince, son of Abd al-Aziz and brother of Umar II.
  • Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm (died 737), Sunni Islamic scholar based in Madinah, Saudi Arabia
  • Abu Bakr al-Isfahani (died 908), Persian scholar in Warsh recitation
  • Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Muhtadi, was the Abbasid prince and son of Caliph Al-Muhtadi.
  • Abu Bakr al-Khallal (died 923), Muslim jurist
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya' al-Razi (c. 865–925), Persian physician, alchemist, and philosopher
  • Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid (c. 860–936), Iraqi Islamic scholar
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad (died 941), Muhtajid ruler of Chaghaniyan and governor of Samanid Khurasan
  • Abu Bakr al-Sajistani (died 941), Islamic scholar
  • Abu Bakr Shibli (861–946), Sufi of Persian descent, disciple of Junayd Baghdadi
  • Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (880–946), Arab shatranj player
  • Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Qutia (died 997), historian and author born in Córdoba, Spain
  • Abu Bakr Ahmed ibn 'Ali ibn Qays al-Wahshiyah, or Ibn Wahshiyya (9th/10th centuries), Iraqi alchemist, agriculturalist, farm toxicologist, egyptologist and historian
  • Abu Bakr al-Alami al-Idrissi (died 10th-century), ancestor of the Alami Sayyids of Morocco and leader of the Beni Arrous tribe
  • Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (late 10th Century), Bukhara Sufi, author of the Kitab at-ta'arruf
  • Abu Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Baqillani (930–1013), Iraqi Islamic scholar, theologian and logician
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Furak (941–1015) Muslim Imam, specialist of Arabic language, grammar and poetry, an orator, a jurist, and a hadith scholar from the Shafi'i Madhab
  • Abul-Mahāsin Abu Bakr Zaynuddin Azraqi (died 1072), Persian poet
  • Abu Bakr ibn Umar (died 1087), Almoravid ruler
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad at-Turtushi (1059–1127), Muslim jurist and political theorist from Tortosa, Spain
  • Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (1076–1148), judge and scholar of Maliki law from al-Andalus
  • Abu Bakr Abd al-Malik ibn Quzman (1078–1160) poet in al-Andalus
  • Abû Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Yaḥyà ibn aṣ-Ṣâ’igh at-Tûjîbî Ibn Bâjja al-Tujibi, known as Avempace, (c. 1085–1138), Andalusian polymath: whose writings cover astronomy, physics, psychology, music, etc.
  • Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi; (1105–1185), Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher
  • Abu Bakr al-Hassar or Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyash al Hassar (12th century), Muslim mathematician from Morocco
  • al-Adil Sayf al-Din Abu-Bakr ibn Ayyub or Al-Adil I (1145–1218), Ayyubid-Egyptian general, brother of Saladin
  • Abu Bakr Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (1200–1261), Almohad theologian.
  • Saif ad-Dīn al-Malik al-ʿĀdil Abū Bakr b. Nāṣir ad-Dīn Muḥammad or Al-Adil II (1221?–1248), Ayyubid sultan of Egypt
  • Abubakr Sa'd ibn Zangy (1231–1260), ruler of Shiraz
  • Abu Bakr (mid 13th century), brother and companion of Sunjata, founder of the Mali Empire
  • Abu Bakr (late 13th century), mansa of the Mali Empire
  • Saif ad-Din Abu-Bakr (c. 1321–1341), Mamluk sultan of Egypt
  • Abu Bakr ibn Faris (died 1359), Marinid Sultan
  • Abu Bakr Shah (died 1390), ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty
  • Aboobakuru I of the Maldives (died 1443?), sultan of Maldives during 1443
  • Abu Bakr al-Aydarus (1447–1508), Hadhrami religious scholar of Sufism and poet
  • Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat (died after 1514), ruler in eastern Central Asia, an emir of the Dughlat tribe
  • Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad (died 1526), sultan of Adal
  • Abu Bakr Mirza (died 1602), self-declared Shah of Shirvan after the downfall of Kavus Mirza
  • Abu Bakr Ibn Braham(Commons) (died 1691), mapmaker

18th century to present

Sportspeople

Other uses

See also
  • Boubacar, West African version of the same name

References
  1. Hanks, P.; Coates, R.; McClure, P. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. OUP Oxford. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-252747-9. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. https://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/inside-the-newsroom/2015/08/20/How-did-Abu-Nidal-attract-a-number-of-Arab-intellectuals-
  3. https://northafricapost.com/16081-morocco-libya-gaddafi-plotted-assassinate-hassan-ii-cia-reveals.html
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