Moustafa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məstɑfə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moustafa is a 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: variant of Mustafa.
- TRTürkiye1 in 78as Mustafa(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 135as Mustafa
- SYSyria≈1 in 232as Mustafa
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moustafa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Sources
- 331 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
1,057,634 named Mustafa, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, as Mustafa
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)
variant of Mustafa.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moustafa 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 | 1,057,634as Mustafa | 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 | 1 | 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; the de-leipzig-vornamen register. 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)
- Mustafa Shokayb. 1890KZKazakhstani politician (1890–1941)
- Moustafa Farroukhb. 1901LBLebanese artist (1901-1957)
- Moustafa Safouanb. 1921EGEgyptian psychoanalyst (1921–2020)
- Moustafa Reyadhb. 1941EGEgyptian association football player
- Moustafa Bayoumib. 1958USAmerican academic and writer
- Moustafa Esmailb. 1965EGEgyptian boxer
- Moustafa Amarb. 1966EGmusician and actor
- Moustafa Shakoshb. 1985SYSyrian footballer
- Sadcat Djb. 1988AEnot in their usual nameUAE rapper
- Moustafa Benshib. 2002SESwedish 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 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2024 | 1 | #2 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
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 Moustafa mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Mustafa. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Moustafa?
- A machine transcription gives /məstɑfə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Moustafa a male or female name?
- Moustafa 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.
- What are other forms of the name Moustafa?
- In the etymology graph, Moustapha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Moustafa have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Mustafa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Moustafa most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Moustafa itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Türkiye's: the national register counts about 1 in 78 people named Mustafa.
- How common is the name Moustafa?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Mustafa in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
- How common is Moustafa compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Moustafa is the 4th most common given name of 264,080 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/moustafaThe 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, “Moustafa” — the 4th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.