Muşa

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Muşa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 14th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew.

rarermore common
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 67K
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 5.3M

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 Muşa 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.

United States (measured from records)

4,955 people, 2020

#981 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
278 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MuşaLatin(measured from records)
МусаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Musa in NG Nigeria, US United States, SE Sweden and 1 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)

Derivation of Muşa: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Muşa
  1. Ottoman Turkishموسیmusa(measured from records)
  2. Arabicمُوسَىmūsā(measured from records)
  3. BiblicalHebrew(measured from records)

From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew.

Sources 11

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Muşa 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.

Where Muşa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,9551 in 67K5.2KMusa278
ES Spain—1,6411 in 30K1.6K—43
TM Turkmenistan#656≈1,400 est.≈1 in 4K—Muşa5
SE Sweden—1,3411 in 7.6K1.3KMusa27
AL Albania—1,1241 in 2.7K1.1K—1
MK North Macedonia—958as Муса1 in 2.2K958—5
DK Denmark—5951 in 9.9K595Musa41
NG Nigeria#14≈41 est.≈1 in 5.3M—Musa126

4,955 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); State Statistical Office — living population names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Muşa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Kazakh given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Syria

    Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian

    Also written Мұса, Муса, Musa, Mūsa

  • Hindi given name71 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, English

    Also written Musa, Moosa, Musha, মুসা, Mussa

  • Polish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Türkiye, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Musa, Musia, Musiaֵ, Musza, Musiä

  • Amharic given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Türkiye, United States

    Also written Musa, ሙሳ, ሙሴ, Moses, ሙሣ

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Muşa 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 Muşa mean, and where does it come from?
From Ottoman Turkish موسی (musa), from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), from Biblical Hebrew. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 9 other sources.
Is Muşa a male or female name?
Muşa 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 Muşa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.0 thousand people named Muşa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musa.
Where is Muşa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Muşa is densest in Albania — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Muşa?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,955 people named Muşa in 2020, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
How common is Muşa compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Muşa is the 14th most common given name of 138,191 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, “Muşa” — the 14th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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