How rare is the last name Mustafa?

7,685 people in the United States have the last name Mustafa, about 1 in 38,894. It ranks #4,476 of 156,621 last names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

last name

MUSTAFA

#4,476

of 156,621 last names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
7,685
About
1 in 38,894
This common or more
57.2%
Who bears it

Of the 7,685 people with the last name Mustafa, 52.5% reported their origin as White, 21.7% as Asian or Pacific Islander and 15.2% as Black. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Exactly as common as Mustafa

1 other last name also has 7,685 people.

#4,476 Blunt · 7,685

Either side of Mustafa

#4,475 Grijalva · 7,688#4,476 Blunt · 7,685#4,478 Budd · 7,684#4,479 Hefner · 7,681

Spelled almost the same

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

#26,112 Mustapha · 986#38,482 Mustafic · 619#64,041 Mujtaba · 336#113,565 Mustafaa · 164

Also a first name

As a first name, Mustafa ranks #2,103 of 53,615, with 12,765 people. As a baby name it peaked in 2025, with 339 births. See Mustafa as a first name

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