Bakr (Name)

Bakr () is an Arabic name for boys that means “young (adolescent) camel”.¹²³

The closest Companion of Prophet Muhammad is known as Abu Bakr, which means “father of a boy named Bakr”. This wasn’t his first name but his kunya, something akin to a nickname. His first name was ʿAbdullāh, his full name being ʿAbdullāh bin Abī Quḥāfa.

There are ten Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Bakr:

• Bakr bin Umayyah al-Dhamri بكر بن أمية الضمري
• Bakr bin Jabalah بكر بن جبلة
• Bakr bin al-Haarith al-Anmaari بكر بن الحارث الأنماري
• Bakr bin Haarithah al-Juhani بكر بن حارثة الجهني
• Bakr bin Habeeb al-Hanafi بكر بن حبيب الحنفي
• Bakr bin Hadhlam al-Asadi بكر بن حذلم الأسدي
• Bakr bin al-Shuddakh al-Laithi بكر بن الشداخ الليثي
• Bakr bin Abdullah bin al-Rabee` al-Ansari بكر بن عبد الله بن الربيع الأنصاري
• Bakr bin Abdullah بكر بن عبد الله
• Bakr bin Mubshir bin Khair al-Ansari al-Awsi بكر بن مبشر بن خير الأنصاري الأوسي

Below is the name Bakr written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Bakr written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بكر.
2. Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib (d. 1213 CE), بكر.
3. Firuzabadi, al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ, البُكْرَةُ.