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Mustafo

#3,067 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Mustafa

Mustafo has been given to 187 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #3,067 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Mustafo, 2025

1 in 82,900

Mustafo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mustafo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mustafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mustafo means

Mustafo is a form of Mustafa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mustafo → Mustafa. The family’s meaning is “the chosen one”, recorded in English with the source elements muṣṭafā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mustafa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 187 boys were recorded with the name Mustafo between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,780 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,885 in 2020 to #3,067 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 Mustafo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,067
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mustafo 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mustafo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mustafos were born

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

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
86.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
187
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 86.6% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Mustafo 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
−287
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,818
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
85.1%
Peak was 2024 (47)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,780
2024

Spellings of Mustafo

Mustafo is not the most common spelling — Gustavo is, with 81.7% against Mustafo's 0.38%.

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 Mustafo is used

Across 1910–2025, Mustafo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 345,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Mustafo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mustafo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,067
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,818
Best rank ever
#2,780
2024
Peak year
2024
47 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
187
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Mustafo

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

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Sibling names for Mustafo

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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