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Muslim

#5,766 in 2025Boys' name

To surrender, to become a Muslim, through مسلم

Muslim has been given to 38 babies in the U.S. since 2016. In 2025 it ranked #5,766 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Muslim, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muslim: meaning, origin, and history

To surrender, to become a Muslim, through مسلم

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Muslim means

Muslim belongs to the name family reached through Muslim → مسلم. Its meaning is “to surrender, to become a Muslim”.

Origin, language, and formation

Muslim is used in Northern Kurdish.

Muslim comes through Arabic مسلم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مسلم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Northern Kurdish, Muslim is pronounced /mʊsˈlɪm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 38 boys were recorded with the name Muslim between 2016 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,766 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,434 in 2020 to #5,766 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 Muslim?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,766
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Muslim 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muslim. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Muslims were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muslim was born before 2024 — so the typical Muslim is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
86.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
38
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 86.8% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Muslim 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
+4,812
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+7,668
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (16)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
84.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,766
2025

Where Muslim is used

Across 1910–2025, Muslim was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,834,433 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Muslim has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Muslim around the world

Where Muslim 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
    2013–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2024
    #5,230
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Muslim by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,766
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 7,668
Best rank ever
#5,766
2025
Peak year
2025
16 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
38
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Muslim

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

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Sibling names for Muslim

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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