Mostafa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məstafə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mostafa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: variant of Mustafa.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 175(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 819
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 175 (inferred from the name graph)
≈600,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
variant of Mustafa.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mostafa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #8 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | — | Mostafa | 214 |
| MA Morocco | #75 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 819 | — | Mostafa | 109 |
| AF Afghanistan | #232 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mostafa | 16 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #167 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Mostafa | 123 |
| SY Syria | #189 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Mostafa | 40 |
| ES Spain | #960 | 3,230 | 1 in 15K | 3.2K | Mostafa | 67 |
| KW Kuwait | #106 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Mostafa | 70 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mostafa El-Abbadib. 1928EGEgyptian historian (1928–2017)
- Mostafa Khomeinib. 1930IRIranian cleric
- Mostafa Chamranb. 1932IRIranian politician (1932-1981)
- Mostafa El-Sayedb. 1933EGEgyptian chemist
- Mostafa Mir-Salimb. 1947IRIranian politician
- Mostafa Mohammad-Najjarb. 1956IRIranian politician
- Mostafa Pour-Mohammadib. 1960IRIranian cleric
- Karim Benzemab. 1987FRnot in their usual nameFrench footballer (born 1987)
- Mostafa Zikob. 1997EGEgyptian association football player
- Mostafa Mohamedb. 1997EGEgyptian association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.2K | #1,240 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.9K | #598 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mostafa mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Mustafa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Mostafa?
- In the etymology graph, Mustafa, Mustapha and Moustapha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mostafa?
- A machine transcription gives /məstafə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Mostafa a male or female name?
- Mostafa 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 Mostafa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 596 thousand people named Mostafa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mostafa.
- How common is the name Mostafa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,230 people named Mostafa, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Mostafa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Mostafa is the 8th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mostafaThe 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, “Mostafa” — the 8th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.