Mustapha — #6950 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mustapha

The Social Security Administration has registered 638 babies named Mustapha between 1981 and 2024, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mustapha currently holds the #6950 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 26 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mustapha performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 197 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mustapha shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 47 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Mustapha in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mustapha 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 638 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.