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Musa

#470 in 2025Boys' name

Razor, through موسی

Musa has been given to 6,140 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #470 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 651 recorded.

Babies named Musa, 2025

1 in 5,090

Musa over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Musa: meaning, origin, and history

Razor, through موسی

Arabic

What Musa means

Musa belongs to the name family reached through Musa → Musa → موسی. Its meaning is “razor”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), Persian موسی (Musâ), and Turkish Musa; ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. Doublet of Moses.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Musa (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Musa is used in English, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Hausa, Malay, Swahili and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Musa comes through Turkish Musa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moses, مُوسَى, Musa and موسی.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Musa is pronounced /ˈmuːsə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,109 boys were recorded with the name Musa between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 651 in 2025; its best national rank was #470 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #744 in 2020 to #470 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #930 in 2015 to #470 in 2025.

In the United States, 31 girls were recorded with the name Musa between 1891 and 1926. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,473 in 1891.

How common is Musa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,090
651 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,620
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#470
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,531 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Musa 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,531 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Musa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Musas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Musa was born before 2018 — so the typical Musa is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (2,671).

Is Musa 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
+54
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+274
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+460
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (651)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#470
2025

Spellings of Musa

Musa is not the most common spelling — Luca is, with 38.4% against Musa's 3.0%.

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 Musa is used

Across 2016–2025, Musa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 1,613 boys, against 1 in 3,907 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 50,000).

262 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 1,613
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 1,754
  3. 3Virginia1 in 1,923
  4. 4Maryland1 in 1,961
  5. 5Michigan1 in 1,961
  6. 6Illinois1 in 2,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 3,448
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 4,000

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.

Geographically, Musa is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 87% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Musa around the world

Where Musa 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
    #64
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2025
    #170
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #344
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #286
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #745
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #193
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2005–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Musa

People whose public names include Musa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Musa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Musa. Linked forms have their own page here.

MoiseMosesMosheMousaMozesMoisesMoisheMoshehMoussaMosèMoïseMuuseMózesMoiseiMoisisMoisèsMoisésMoosesMoscheMovsesMoysésMoisseyMojżesz

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Musa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#470
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 274
Best rank ever
#470
2025
Peak year
2025
651 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,109
Count in 2025
651

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,473
1891
Peak year
1918
8 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
1926
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Musa

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

MustafaMusabMuseMousaMussaMusiqMustaphaMuscabMustafoMusaabMuslimMustafMussieMustafeMusicMusoMusawerMusseMusahMusashiMustafaaMusawirMuslehMustaqeem

Names with a curve like Musa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Musa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AzariahAnakinZaydBooneCreedAriesLuccaIdrisEmirKaysenDakariEliel

Sibling names for Musa

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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