How rare is the name Mustafa?

12,765 people in the United States have the first name Mustafa, about 1 in 23,661. It ranks #2,103 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MUSTAFA

#2,103

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
12,765
About
1 in 23,661
This common or more
78.5%
Who bears it

Of the 12,765 people named Mustafa, 55.1% reported their origin as White, 22.1% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 16% as Black. Virtually all are male (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mustafa peaked in 2025, when 339 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19632025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
339
In 2025*
339
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 7,373 babies have been given the name since 1963. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mustafa by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #1,804. The largest share of babies named Mustafa, 44.2%, were born in 2013 or later.

1960s#12,10321
1970s#5,060219
1980s#2,921633
1990s#2,6491,016
2000s#2,3821,605
2010s#2,0292,243
2020s#1,8041,636
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–803.9%
Millennials 1981–9616.5%
Generation Z 1997–1235.3%
2013 and later44.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mustafa is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mustafa has been most common in New Jersey (3.3×), Virginia (2.4×), and New York (2.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.26×).

5,626 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mustafa

#2,101 Mercy · 12,795#2,102 Fredy · 12,789#2,104 Zara · 12,764#2,105 Janell · 12,755

Spelled almost the same

3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mustafa, most common first.

#7,340 Mustapha · 2,086#16,764 Mujtaba · 668#30,390 Mustaf · 287

Also a last name

As a last name, Mustafa ranks #4,476 of 156,621, with 7,685 people. See Mustafa as a last name

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