Musţafa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Musţafa is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).
- TRTürkiye1 in 78(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 135
- SYSyria≈1 in 232
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #98 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
1,057,634 people, 2025
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mustafa in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, DE Germany and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).
Cited for this meaning 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world
(measured from records)Musţafa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #4 | 1,057,634 | 1 in 78 | 1.1M | Mustafa | 216 |
| EG Egypt | #75 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Mustafa | 172 |
| SY Syria | #10 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | — | Mustafa | 58 |
| NG Nigeria | #896 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Mustafa | 50 |
| DE Germany | #249 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Mustafa | 211 |
| BG Bulgaria | #30 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 625 | — | Mustafa | 79 |
| LY Libya | #6 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 694 | — | Mustafa | 58 |
| CY Cyprus | #3 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 135 | — | Mustafa | 45 |
1,057,634 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Musţafa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 9 other sources.
- Is Musţafa a male or female name?
- Musţafa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Musţafa have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Musţafa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mustafa.
- Where is Musţafa most common?
- Musţafa is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Musţafa?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Musţafa in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
- How common is Musţafa compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Musţafa is the 4th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mus%C5%A3afaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Musţafa” — the 4th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.