Musta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: black (colour)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/musta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Musta is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 80Kfew records
- ESSpain≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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)Contraction of must have.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Musta is read
(measured from records)Musta is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Musta in Spanish.
- Arabic14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Musta in Arabic.
- Hindi13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Musta in Hindi.
- Finnish6.8%
black (colour)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English6.4%
Contraction of must have.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Musta in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Musta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Musta | 7 |
| IN India | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 6 | Musta | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 307K | — | Musta | 43 |
| MA Morocco | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Musta | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Musta | 15 |
| ES Spain | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 10 | Musta | 13 |
| FI Finland | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 172 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Musta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mustum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of must
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, clipping of kumusta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ppl, tomorrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Ville Mustab. 1886FIFinnish artist
- Perlat Mustab. 1958ALassociation football player from Albania
- Aulona Mustab. 1984ALAlbanian influencer
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #45,050 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,544 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1980 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1983 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1994 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1982 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 3 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Musta come from?
- Contraction of must have. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Musta?
- In Spanish /musta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Musta a male or female name?
- Musta 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 does the name Musta mean?
- In Finnish, black (colour)
- In which country does Musta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Musta in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musta.
- How common is the name Musta?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Musta in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mustaThe 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, “Musta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.