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Mukhtar

#8,044 in 2025Boys' name

Chosen

Mukhtar has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #8,044 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Mukhtar, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mukhtar: meaning, origin, and history

Chosen

Arabic

What Mukhtar means

Mukhtar means “chosen”, associated with muḵtār.

Origin, language, and formation

Mukhtar is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Mukhtar comes through Arabic مُخْتَار.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Mukhtar is pronounced /ˈmuxtar/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 154 boys were recorded with the name Mukhtar between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2018; its best national rank was #6,583 in 2018.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,271 in 2015 to #8,044 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 Mukhtar?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,044
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mukhtar 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mukhtar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mukhtars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mukhtar was born before 2015 — so the typical Mukhtar is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
154
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Mukhtar 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,227
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.9%
Peak was 2018 (13)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,583
2018

Where Mukhtar is used

Across 1910–2025, Mukhtar was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 640,270 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 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. Mukhtar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mukhtar around the world

Where Mukhtar 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
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mukhtar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,044
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,583
2018
Peak year
2018
13 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Mukhtar

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

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Sibling names for Mukhtar

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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