Muso

Boys' name

From Arabic مُوسَى; literal meaning unconfirmed

Muso has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2023. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Muso, 2023

1 in 663,000

Muso over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Muso: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic مُوسَى; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Muso means

Muso is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Muso is used in Uzbek. Its origins include Arabic.

Muso comes through Arabic مُوسَى and Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Muso between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,535 in 2023.

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.

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How common is Muso?

Muso had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Muso 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Muso. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Musos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Muso was born before 2023 — so the typical Muso is around 2 today.

Median birth year: 2023; About 2 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Muso 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: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2023 (5)
Years since peak: 2; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #13,535; 2023

Spellings of Muso

Muso is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 69.7% against Muso's <0.01%.

Mason69.7%342,583
Milo8.9%43,847
Hugo7.6%37,482
Gus4.1%20,119
Mose1.6%7,935
Mauro1.4%6,644
Russ1.2%6,131
Musa1.2%6,109

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.

Muso by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #13,535; 2023
Peak year: 2023; 5 that year
First recorded: 2023
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Muso

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

Musah Musse Musleh Muse Music Musawer Musiq Mussiah Muslim Musaab Mussa Caruso Mustafah Mustaqim Musawir Mustafe Mustaqeem Muscab Musashi Mussie Mustafo Musab Mustaf Mustafaa

Sibling names for Muso

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Isha Oaklee Jenesis Kamari Ellianna Promise Salem Sariyah

For a brother

Gian Rishi Gray Koen Yael Anakin Eleazar Briar

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