Mustapha
Mustapha was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,767 among boys’ names; 654 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mustapha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mustapha?
#5,767 among boys’ names, 2025
Mustapha fell from #5,206 in 2015 to #5,767 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born held at 9.4 per million.
26 babies in 2004, the peak
Mustapha peaked in 2004, when 26 boys were given it, #3,600 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,767 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,120 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,186 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,104 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,943 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,886 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,470 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,467 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,231 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,275 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,206 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,206 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,830 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,805 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,468 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,322 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,693 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,191 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,601 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,987 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,286 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,600 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,922 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,138 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,405 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,790 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,547 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,336 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,172 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,961 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,513 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,454 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,913 | 12.2 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,161 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,330 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,670 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,707 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,551 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,677 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,733 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,089 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,031 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,815 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mustapha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mustapha has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mustapha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mustapha, and how old are they?
An estimated 641 Americans named Mustapha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,086 people named Mustapha (3 women and girls, 2,083 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.7 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Mustapha?
Mustapha is a less common spelling of Mustafa: SSA has recorded 654 Mustapha and 7,373 Mustafa since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,027 babies since 1880, Mustapha is the second most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 355 babies (4.5%), again the second 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 Mustapha
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 Mustapha and names like it
- Compare Mustapha and MustafaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMustapha peaked in 2004.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mustapha since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Mustapha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mustapha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.