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Mojtaba

Boys' name

From Persian مجتبی; literal meaning unconfirmed

Mojtaba has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Mojtaba, 2014

1 in 741,000

Mojtaba over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mojtaba: meaning, origin, and history

From Persian مجتبی; literal meaning unconfirmed

Persian

What Mojtaba means

Mojtaba is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mojtaba is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Mojtaba comes through Persian مجتبی.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Mojtaba between 2014 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2014; its best national rank was #13,395 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mojtaba?

Mojtaba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 741,000
5 of 3,706,812 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mojtaba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mojtaba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mojtabas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mojtaba was born before 2014 — so the typical Mojtaba is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Mojtaba rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (5)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,395
2014

Spellings of Mojtaba

Mojtaba is not the most common spelling — Montana is, with 84.2% against Mojtaba's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mojtaba around the world

Where Mojtaba ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2022–2023
    #4,680
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mojtaba by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,395
2014
Peak year
2014
5 that year
First recorded
2014
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mojtaba

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mojtaba

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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