Mustafa — #820 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mustafa

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,031 babies named Mustafa between 1963 and 2024, spanning 62 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mustafa currently holds the #820 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 304 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mustafa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,243 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mustafa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 961 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mustafa in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mustafa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,031 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.