Mustafa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mustafa 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: Turkish given name/surname from Arabic Mustafā 'the chosen one'.
- TRTürkiye1 in 78(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 135
- SYSyria≈1 in 232
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.
- 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 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
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)
Turkish given name/surname from Arabic Mustafā 'the chosen one'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mustafa 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 | 1,057,634 | 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 | — | 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. 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)
Mustafa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, the chosen one; epithet of the Prophet Muhammad
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
$ ‘Pure’ or ‘chosen’. Al-Mustafa ‘the Chosen One’ is an epithet of Muhammad. For Arabic-speaking Christians it is an epithet of St Paul. Mustafa Kamal (1881-1938) was the founder of 4 295 modern Turkey (president from 1922), known in Turkish as Ataiirk ‘father of the Turks’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from the Arabic personal name (see 1 above), or from a nickname from Calabrian mustafd ‘strong man with a walms moustache’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Arabic personal name (see 1 above).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Turkish, 1. Seçilmiş, seçkin. 2. Hz. Muhammed'in adlarından.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Mustafa Ib. 1591TR15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
- Mustafa IIb. 1664TR22th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1695–1703)
- Mustafa IIIb. 1717TR26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)
- Mustafa IVb. 1779TR29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807–1808)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürkb. 1881TRfounding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- İsmet İnönüb. 1884TRnot in their usual name2nd President of the Republic of Turkey (1884–1973)
- Bülent Ecevitb. 1925TRnot in their usual name16th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey (1925–2006)
- Abu Hamza al-Masrib. 1958EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian-born British Islamist terrorist
- Moustafa Madboulib. 1966EGnot in their usual nameprime minister of Egypt since 2018
- Mustafa Al-Kadhimib. 1967IQIraqi politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 120 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 1.1M | #2 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.4K | #21 |
Reference works 9
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Is Mustafa a male or female name?
- Mustafa 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 Mustafa mean, and where does it come from?
- Turkish given name/surname from Arabic Mustafā 'the chosen one' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Mustafa?
- In the etymology graph, Mostafa, Mustapha and Moustapha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mustafa 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 it is most often spelled mustafa.
- Where is Mustafa most common?
- Mustafa is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 78 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mustafa?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Mustafa in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
- How common is Mustafa compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Mustafa is the 4th most common given name of 264,080 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, “Mustafa” — the 4th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.