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Mostafa

#5,764 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mustafa

Mostafa has been given to 755 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,764 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Mostafa, 2025

1 in 207,000

Mostafa over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mostafa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mustafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mostafa means

Mostafa is a form of Mustafa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mostafa → Mustafa. The family’s meaning is “the chosen one”, recorded in English with the source elements muṣṭafā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mustafa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 755 boys were recorded with the name Mostafa between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,789 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,165 in 2020 to #5,764 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,650 in 2015 to #5,764 in 2025.

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 Mostafa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,764
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mostafa 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 2025 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mostafa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mostafas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mostafa was born before 2005 — so the typical Mostafa is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
755
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (219).

Is Mostafa 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
−183
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−599
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,114
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.7%
Peak was 2017 (35)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,789
1985

Spellings of Mostafa

Mostafa is not the most common spelling — Mustafa is, with 60.6% against Mostafa's 6.2%.

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.

Where Mostafa is used

Across 1910–2025, Mostafa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 697,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mostafa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mostafa around the world

Where Mostafa 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
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1955–2025
    #3,010
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #446
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Mostafa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,764
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 599
Best rank ever
#2,789
1985
Peak year
2017
35 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
755
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Mostafa

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

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Sibling names for Mostafa

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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