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Moustafa

#13,273 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Mustafa

Moustafa has been given to 356 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #13,273 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Moustafa, 2025

1 in 663,000

Moustafa over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moustafa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Mustafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moustafa means

Moustafa is a alternate transcription of Mustafa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Moustafa is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmusˤ.tˤa.faː/ for Moustafa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Moustafa → 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, 356 boys were recorded with the name Moustafa between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,930 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,279 in 2020 to #13,273 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,290 in 2015 to #13,273 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 Moustafa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,273
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moustafa 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moustafa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moustafas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moustafa was born before 2003 — so the typical Moustafa is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Moustafa 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
−2,705
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,994
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,983
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 1999 (19)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,930
1999

Spellings of Moustafa

Moustafa is not the most common spelling — Mustafa is, with 86.9% against Moustafa's 4.2%.

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 Moustafa is used

Across 1910–2025, Moustafa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 832,740 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Moustafa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moustafa around the world

Where Moustafa 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
    1997–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1947–2025
    #1,907
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2020
    #2,066
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Moustafa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,994
Best rank ever
#3,930
1999
Peak year
1999
19 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
356
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Moustafa

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

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Sibling names for Moustafa

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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