Musa
Musa was given to 651 boys in 2025, #470 among boys’ names; 6,140 Americans have been recorded with it since 1891 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,030 Americans named Musa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Musa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Musa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Musa is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Moses.”
Transliteration of Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), Persian موسی (Musâ), and Turkish Musa; ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. Doublet of Moses.
/ˈmuːsə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Musa?
#470 among boys’ names, 2025
Musa rose from #930 in 2015 to #470 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.38 per 1,000.
651 babies in 2025, the peak
Musa peaked in 2025, when 651 boys were given it, #470 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 568 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 651 | #470 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 568 | #524 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 418 | #655 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 367 | #718 | 0.21 |
| 2021 | 341 | #748 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 326 | #744 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 289 | #796 | 0.16 |
| 2018 | 317 | #747 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 268 | #831 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 219 | #951 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 228 | #930 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 206 | #1,000 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 148 | #1,214 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 168 | #1,108 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,294 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 130 | #1,319 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 114 | #1,465 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 96 | #1,628 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,473 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 102 | #1,497 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 68 | #1,877 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 64 | #1,919 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,018 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,905 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,003 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,084 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 38 | #2,335 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,530 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,095 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 30 | #2,533 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 24 | #2,998 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,108 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,504 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,512 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,263 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,958 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,754 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,773 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,371 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,334 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,405 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,966 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #3,090 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,419 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,215 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Musa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Musa has been given almost only to boys: 31 girls in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Musa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Musa, and how old are they?
6,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,140 Americans ever recorded as Musa. The median Musa alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 4,955 people named Musa (108 women and girls, 4,847 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,476 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 104 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 324 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,320 |
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 Musa born?
The states with the most babies named Musa are New York, California and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 97 | #204 | 2.6× |
| California | 82 | #405 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 81 | #424 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 47 | #212 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 44 | #260 | 1.7× |
| New Jersey | 26 | #332 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #420 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 24 | #676 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 24 | #449 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 23 | #361 | 1.6× |
Where Musa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Musa is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Musa 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,385 babies since 1880, Musa is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 651 of their 668 babies (97%), 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 Musa
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 Musa and names like it
- Compare Musa and MussaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMusa peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Musa since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Musa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Musa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Musa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.