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Moustapha

#5,145 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mustafa

Moustapha has been given to 403 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #5,145 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Moustapha, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moustapha: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mustafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moustapha means

Moustapha is a form of Mustafa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Moustapha → 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, 403 boys were recorded with the name Moustapha between 1995 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2005; its best national rank was #4,014 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,167 in 2020 to #5,145 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,205 in 2015 to #5,145 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 Moustapha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,145
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moustapha 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moustapha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moustaphas were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
403
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (145).

Is Moustapha 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
+1,970
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+22
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+60
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
82.6%
Peak was 2005 (23)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,014
2005

Spellings of Moustapha

Moustapha is not the most common spelling — Mustapha is, with 61.9% against Moustapha's 38.1%.

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 Moustapha is used

Across 1910–2025, Moustapha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 131,919 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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. Moustapha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Moustapha around the world

Where Moustapha 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
    2005–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023
  • France
    1953–2025
    #524
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #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.

Moustapha by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,145
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 22
Best rank ever
#4,014
2005
Peak year
2005
23 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
403
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Moustapha

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

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Sibling names for Moustapha

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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