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Mujtaba

#7,518 in 2025Boys' name

Chosen, selected

Mujtaba has been given to 390 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #7,518 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Mujtaba, 2025

1 in 301,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mujtaba: meaning, origin, and history

Chosen, selected

Persian

What Mujtaba means

Mujtaba means “chosen, selected”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mujtaba is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Mujtaba comes through Persian مجتبی.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 390 boys were recorded with the name Mujtaba between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2017; its best national rank was #4,421 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,889 in 2020 to #7,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,202 in 2015 to #7,518 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 Mujtaba?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,518
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mujtaba 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mujtaba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mujtabas were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
390
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Mujtaba 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
+615
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+371
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,316
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
47.8%
Peak was 2017 (23)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,421
2017

Spellings of Mujtaba

Mujtaba is not the most common spelling — Mustafa is, with 95.0% against Mujtaba's 5.0%.

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 Mujtaba is used

Across 1910–2025, Mujtaba was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,558,013 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Mujtaba has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mujtaba around the world

Where Mujtaba 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
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #5,971
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2001–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2007–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mujtaba by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 371
Best rank ever
#4,421
2017
Peak year
2017
23 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
390
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Mujtaba

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

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Sibling names for Mujtaba

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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