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Mussa

#9,435 in 2025Boys' name

Razor, through موسی

Mussa has been given to 152 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #9,435 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Mussa, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mussa: meaning, origin, and history

Razor, through موسی

Arabic and Turkish

What Mussa means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mussa is used in Catalan. Its origins include Arabic and Turkish.

Mussa comes through Arabic مُوسَى and Ottoman Turkish موسی.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Musa and موسی.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Mussa is pronounced [ˈmu.sə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 152 boys were recorded with the name Mussa between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2013; its best national rank was #6,898 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,248 in 2020 to #9,435 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,293 in 2015 to #9,435 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.

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How common is Mussa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,435
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mussa 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mussa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mussas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mussa was born before 2013 — so the typical Mussa is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
152
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Mussa 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
+813
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−142
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2013 (12)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,898
2013

Spellings of Mussa

Mussa is not the most common spelling — Russ is, with 30.3% against Mussa's 0.75%.

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.

Mussa around the world

Where Mussa 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
    2000–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2015–2025
    #3,759
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mussa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,435
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 813
Best rank ever
#6,898
2013
Peak year
2013
12 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
152
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Mussa

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

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Sibling names for Mussa

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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