Mousa
Mousa was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,723 among boys’ names; 543 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mousa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mousa?
#3,723 among boys’ names, 2025
Mousa rose from #5,001 in 2015 to #3,723 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 17.6 per million.
30 babies in 2023, the peak
Mousa peaked in 2023, when 30 boys were given it, #3,770 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,723 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,039 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,770 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,961 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,720 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,102 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,090 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,443 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,235 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,700 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,001 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,633 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,135 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,889 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,335 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,593 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,764 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,189 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,887 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,817 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,106 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,599 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,131 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,444 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,121 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,225 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,351 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,149 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,061 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,084 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,784 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,330 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,376 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,368 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,781 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,756 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,732 | 3.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #4,136 | 5.5 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,949 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,700 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,458 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mousa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mousa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mousa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mousa, and how old are they?
An estimated 534 Americans named Mousa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,061 people named Mousa (11 women and girls, 1,050 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 11,015 babies since 1880, Mousa is the fourth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 126 babies (24%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mousa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mousa and names like it
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