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Moussa

#3,111 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Musa

Moussa has been given to 1,096 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,111 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Moussa, 2025

1 in 85,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moussa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Musa

Arabic

What Moussa means

Moussa is a alternate transcription of Musa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Moussa is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Moussa comes through Arabic مُوسَى.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Musa and Moïse.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Moussa is pronounced /mu.sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,096 boys were recorded with the name Moussa between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2013; its best national rank was #2,612 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,247 in 2020 to #3,111 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,063 in 2015 to #3,111 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 Moussa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,111
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moussa 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moussa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moussas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moussa was born before 2012 — so the typical Moussa is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,096
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.8% of all recorded uses (403).

Is Moussa 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
+388
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+136
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−48
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.8%
Peak was 2013 (46)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,612
2013

Spellings of Moussa

Moussa is not the most common spelling — Musa is, with 73.9% against Moussa's 13.3%.

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 Moussa is used

Across 1910–2025, Moussa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 162,188 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Moussa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moussa around the world

Where Moussa 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
    2002–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #119
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024

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.

Moussa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,111
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 136
Best rank ever
#2,612
2013
Peak year
2013
46 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,096
Count in 2025
39

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

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Sibling names for Moussa

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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