Mustafa
Mustafa was given to 339 boys in 2025, #761 among boys’ names; 7,373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,220 Americans named Mustafa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mustafa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mustafa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mustafa is “a male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.” Its etymology gives the sense “the chosen one” (مُصْطَفَى).
From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mustafa?
#761 among boys’ names, 2025
Mustafa rose from #907 in 2015 to #761 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.12 to 0.20 per 1,000.
339 babies in 2025, the peak
Mustafa peaked in 2025, when 339 boys were given it, #761 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 304 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 339 | #761 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 304 | #822 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 263 | #885 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 275 | #877 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 261 | #886 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 194 | #1,045 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 211 | #995 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 240 | #904 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 235 | #909 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 234 | #920 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 238 | #907 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 235 | #913 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 231 | #903 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 228 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 215 | #930 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 176 | #1,095 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 197 | #1,000 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 147 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 187 | #1,019 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 157 | #1,115 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 146 | #1,087 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 150 | #1,042 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 170 | #945 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 154 | #993 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 145 | #1,009 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,103 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 136 | #1,004 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,070 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 117 | #1,043 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 100 | #1,145 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 107 | #1,083 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,219 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,330 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,224 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,270 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,248 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,298 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 63 | #1,226 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 55 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 64 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 63 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,197 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 44 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 42 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,265 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,741 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,358 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,792 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,243 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mustafa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mustafa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mustafa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mustafa, and how old are they?
7,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,373 Americans ever recorded as Mustafa. The median Mustafa alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 12,765 people named Mustafa (34 women and girls, 12,731 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,683 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 265 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,240 |
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 Mustafa born?
The states with the most babies named Mustafa are California, New York and Texas, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 45 | #634 | 0.9× |
| New York | 42 | #416 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 37 | #742 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 21 | #497 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 21 | #507 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 19 | #425 | 2.5× |
| Minnesota | 14 | #410 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 13 | #577 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,042 | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | #668 | 1.6× |
Where Mustafa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mustafa is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1963 it was given 2.5 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 Mustafa 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 8,214 babies since 1880, Mustafa is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 339 of their 395 babies (86%), 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 Mustafa
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 Mustafa and names like it
- Compare Mustafa and MustaphaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMustafa peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mustafa since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Mustafa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mustafa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mustafa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.