Mustafá

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Elegido

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mustafa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mustafá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 78(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 22K
  • USUnited States1 in 26K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

1,057,634 people, 2025

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mustafa in TR Türkiye, US United States, ES Spain.

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)

Elegido

Sources 1

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mustafá 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.

Where Mustafá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—1,057,6341 in 781.1MMustafa58
US United States—12,7651 in 26K13KMustafa113
SE Sweden—7,4371 in 1.4K7.4K—19
ES Spain#8572,2461 in 22K2.2KMustafa64
DK Denmark—2,1151 in 2.8K2.1K——
AL Albania—1,9481 in 1.6K1.9K——
NO Norway—1,4811 in 3.7K4.9K—10

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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mustafá is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, Pakistan, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Mustafa, Mostafa, Mostofa, মোস্তফা, Mustofa

  • a separate name22 spellings in the group

    Also written Muṣṭạfā, Muṣt̤afā, Musṭafá, Muṣṭāfā, Muṣt̤afá

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium, Italy

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Mustafa, M'Ustafa, Mustafà, Mùstàfà, Muṣṭafá

  • Indonesian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Türkiye, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mustafa, Mustafa', M'Ustafa, Mùśtafa, Müstáfá

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado Sr. Mustafá,Dear Mr Mustafá, (English)
InformalHola Mustafá,Hi Mustafá, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.

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 Mustafá mean, and where does it come from?
Elegido Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
How do you pronounce Mustafá?
A machine transcription gives /mustafa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Mustafá have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mustafá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mustafa.
Where is Mustafá most common?
Mustafá is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 people carrying it.
How common is the name Mustafá?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Mustafá in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
How common is Mustafá compared with other names?
In Spain, Mustafá is the 857th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mustafá” — the 857th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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