Abu Bakr (name)

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Abu Bakr is a male Arabic name that means "Father of Bakr", usually used after Abu Bakr, the first Sunni Muslim Caliph. Other transliterations include Abu Bakar, Abubakar or Abu Bekr.

Bakr is a given name in Arabic and it means the firstborn child or a virgin. Abu Bakr is a kunya. However, lately some people started using Abu Bakr as a given name, especially among non-Arabs.

People with the name include:

• Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Hazm (d. 737), scholar
• Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad (d. 1526), sultan of Adal
• Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Ayyash al Hassar ("al Hassar"), 12th century mathematician
• Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar
• Al-Tartushi
• Abu Bakr ibn ‘Abd Al-Rahman ibn Harith
• Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
• Ibn al-Qayyim
• Abdulsalami Abubakar, former president of Nigeria.
• Al-Razi (865-925), Persian philosopher and physician
• Abu-Bakr Muhammad ben Yahya as-Suli (880-946), Arab shatranj player
• Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar (d. 1097), Moroccan Almoravid ruler
• Ibn Tufail (1100–1185), Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher
• Al-Adil I (1145-1218), brother of Saladin
• Abu Bakr (mansa), 13th century Prince of the Mali Empire
• Abubakari II, 14th century Prince of the Mali Empire
• Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor (1833-1895)
• Sultan Abu Bakar (1904-1974), Sultan of Penang
• Abu Bakar Bashir (b. 1938), Indonesian Muslim cleric
• Admiral Tan Sri Dato' Seri Abu Bakar bin Abdul Jamal (b. 1946), admiral in the Malaysian Navy
• Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Yemeni Prime Minister, 1990-1994
• Atiku Abubakar, Vice President of Nigeria
• Abdulsalami Abubakar, President of Nigeria, 1998-1999
• Yasin Abu Bakr, 21st century black Muslim leader and terrorist suspect
• Abubakar Tariq Nadama, autistic boy killed through medical malpractice
• Pseudonym of Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika