Mustafa
Mustafa is a boy's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 760th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 760th. About 7,200 Mustafas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Mustafa
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,373
- Estimated living today
- 7,200
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 760th
- Rank in 2025
- 760th
- First recorded
- 1963
How old the living Mustafas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,373 babies given the name since 1963, about 7,200 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 4,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mustafas
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938)founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- Mustafa I (1591–1639)15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
- Mustafa III (1717–1774)26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Mustafa II (1664–1703)22th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Mustafa IV (1779–1808)29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (born 1967)Iraqi politician
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil (born 1952)De facto leader of Libya from 2011 to 2012
- Mustafa Akıncı (born 1947)President of Northern Cyprus from 2015 to 2020
People named Mustafa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mustafa is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mustafa is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.3×), Virginia (2.5×), New York (2.3×), Minnesota (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Mustafa peaked:
Mustafa elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Mustafa | 5,778 | 165th |
| France boys | Mustafa | 4,630 | 477th |
| Norway boys | Mustafa | 1,385 | 167th |
| Belgium boys | Mustafa | 1,076 | 239th |
| Italy boys | Mustafa | 401 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Mustafa | 307 | 313th |
| Scotland boys | Mustafa | 166 | 227th |
| Ireland boys | Mustafa | 111 | 309th |
| Poland boys | Mustafa | 25 birth registrations | 588th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mustafa: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mustafa | 256 | 0.021% | 270th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mustafa | 47 | 0.011% | 322nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mustafa | 4 | 0.006% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mustafa is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.03% of children were given it – 91 of them.
Mustafa: rank by region
In 2025, Mustafa was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mustafa | 290 | 20 |
| Brussels | Mustafa | 265 | 5 |
In 2022, Mustafa was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Mustafa | 339 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mustafa appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (226th), Brussels-Capital Region (265th) and Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mustafa by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 185 | 119th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mustafa among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mustafa | 2,835 | 3,544 |
| Finland boys | Mustafa | 573 | 753 |
| Finland girls | Mustafa | — | 104 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mustafa | — | 33 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mustafa lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,246 men called Mustafa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Mustafa | 430 | 10.202 | 9 |
| Melilla | Mustafa | 224 | 5.118 | 36 |
| Girona | Mustafa | 116 | 0.279 | 355 |
| Tarragona | Mustafa | 62 | 0.141 | 587 |
| Rioja, La | Mustafa | 21 | 0.130 | 564 |
| Almería | Mustafa | 50 | 0.127 | 642 |
Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mustafa against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.