Mustafā

given name · Latin script

Mustafā is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. Recorded meaning: From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

21 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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”).

Sources 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

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mustafā counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Mustafā is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
TR Türkiye—1.1M—
US United States—13K—
SE Sweden—7.4K—
NO Norway—4.9K—
FR France—4.6K—

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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)

Mustafā is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Pashto given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, Türkiye, Syria, United States

    Also written Mustafa, Müstafa, Muṣt̤afá, Muṣṭafá

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mustafā under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mustafā 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 Mustafā a male or female name?
Mustafā 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 Mustafā have the most bearers?
Mustafā is most frequently recorded in Türkiye.

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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, “Mustafā”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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