Muslim
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A Muslim; Tanzanian spellings include Mselema and related forms
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Muslim is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 6.2K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 13K
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 Muslim 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 named Müslüm, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tajikistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Муслим in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TJ Tajikistan and 2 more, Müslüm in TR Türkiye, Muslum in US United States and মুসলিম in BD Bangladesh.
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)
A Muslim; Tanzanian spellings include Mselema and related forms.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muslim 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 | #341 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Müslüm | 50 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #299 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 16K | Муслим | 43 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Muslim | 46 |
| RU Russia | #357 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | #149 | Муслим | 150 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | মুসলিম | 39 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Муслим | 15 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #363 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Муслим | 12 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #557 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 87 | Муслим | 23 |
| US United States | — | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 311 | Muslum | 108 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — names tool (monthly birth registrations 2010–2026); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Muslim 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, Muslim; believer in Islam
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Que se somete a Dios, musulmán
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
one who believes in and
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
submits to God peacefully
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Arabic, (male) follower of the religion of Islam. 54 Cgelue LL Igrgtl 141,23 141.5 "If then they turn back, then say: ‘Bear witness that we are Muslims (bowing to Allah’s will)." (surat Aal ‘Imraan 3:64). Abul Husayn Muslim (816-875): author of Sahih al- Muslim
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Muslim ibn Uqbab. 622SAUmayyad Caliphate general (died 683)
- Muslim ibn Aqilb. 632SASon of Aqil ibn Abi Talib and cousin of Husain ibn Ali (died 680)
- Imam Muslimb. 817IRIslamic hadith scholar (821–875)
- Muslim Magomayevb. 1885RUAzerbaijani composer and conductor (1885–1937)
- Muslim Magomayevb. 1942AZSoviet-Azerbaijani singer
- Muslim Khuchievb. 1971RURussian politician
- Muslim Salikhovb. 1984RURussian Sanda/Sanshou fighter and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Sonny Muslimb. 1989GBEnglish actor
- Muslim Gadzhimagomedovb. 1997RUboxer
- Muslim ibn Sa'id al-KilabiUmayyad Governor of Khurasan from 723 to 724
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 57 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 226 | #83,226 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 180 | #94,227 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #828 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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
- What does the name Muslim mean, and where does it come from?
- A Muslim; Tanzanian spellings include Mselema and related forms. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Muslim have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Müslüm in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Muslim?
- In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Muslim in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Muslim compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Muslim is the 341st 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/muslimThe 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, “Muslim” — the 341st most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.