Mustafà
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dall’arabo Muṣṭafā, ‘il prescelto’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Mustafà 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.
- 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)dall’arabo Muṣṭafā, ‘il prescelto’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mustafà 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mustafà is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, nome turco, dall’arabo Mustafa, «l’eletto, il prescelto».
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Domenico Mustafàb. 1829ITItalian composer (1829–1912)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mustafà mean, and where does it come from?
- dall’arabo Muṣṭafā, ‘il prescelto’ Recorded by Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
- Is Mustafà a male or female name?
- Mustafà 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 Mustafà have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mustafà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mustafa.
- Where is Mustafà most common?
- Mustafà is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mustafà?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Mustafà in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
- How common is Mustafà compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mustafà 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/mustaf%C3%A0The 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, “Mustafà” — the 4th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.