Moussa
Moussa was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,111 among boys’ names; 1,096 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Moussa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Moussa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Moussa mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Moussa is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Musa” Its etymology gives the sense “Moses” (مُوسَى).
Borrowed from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā, “Moses”). Doublet of Moïse.
/mu.sa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Moussa?
#3,111 among boys’ names, 2025
Moussa fell from #3,063 in 2015 to #3,111 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 22.8 per million.
46 babies in 2013, the peak
Moussa peaked in 2013, when 46 boys were given it, #2,612 among boys’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,111 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,499 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,834 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,388 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,338 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,247 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 42 | #2,922 | 23.4 |
| 2018 | 46 | #2,692 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,049 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,872 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,063 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,966 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 46 | #2,612 | 24.3 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,988 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,573 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,856 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,311 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,083 | 18.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #3,114 | 17.8 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,011 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,290 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,935 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,709 | 18.7 |
| 2002 | 36 | #2,663 | 18.5 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,717 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,015 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,659 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,455 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,853 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,500 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,785 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,331 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,250 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,158 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,148 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #9,054 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,549 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Moussa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Moussa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Moussa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Moussa, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,096 Americans ever recorded as Moussa. The median Moussa alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 2,245 people named Moussa (29 women and girls, 2,216 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 873 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 72 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 499 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 510 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Moussa born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,096 | 5.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,416 | 0.6× |
Where Moussa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Moussa is most over-represented in New York: since 1988 it was given 5.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Moussa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,974 babies since 1880, Moussa is the most given (56% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 86 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Moussa
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 Moussa and names like it
- Compare Moussa and MousaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMoussa peaked in 2013.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Moussa since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Moussa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Moussa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Moussa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.