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Mousa

#3,723 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Musa

Mousa has been given to 543 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #3,723 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Mousa, 2025

1 in 111,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mousa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Musa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mousa means

Mousa is a form of Musa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mousa → Musa → Musa → موسی. The family’s meaning is “razor”, recorded in Ottoman Turkish with the source elements ostore.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Musa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 543 boys were recorded with the name Mousa between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,723 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,102 in 2020 to #3,723 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,001 in 2015 to #3,723 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 Mousa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,723
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mousa 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mousa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mousas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mousa was born before 2013 — so the typical Mousa is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
543
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Mousa 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
+316
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+379
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,278
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.58×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2023 (30)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,723
2025

Spellings of Mousa

Mousa is not the most common spelling — Mose is, with 41.3% against Mousa's 2.8%.

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 Mousa is used

Across 1910–2025, Mousa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 827,650 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 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. Mousa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mousa around the world

Where Mousa 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
    1999–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2025
    #4,921
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #2,216
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mousa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,723
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 379
Best rank ever
#3,723
2025
Peak year
2023
30 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
543
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Mousa

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

MoussaMouradMoustafaMouhamedMouaMoustaphaMouhamadMounirMouadMouhamadouMusaMouryaMountMouctarMouriceMouhammadMoultonMoultrieMoutazJohusaJoshusaMouhamadoulMuhammadmusaMohammedmusa

Sibling names for Mousa

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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