Mustafaa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘The chosen one’; Qur'anic/prophetic epithet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məsʈafəə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mustafaa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye1 in 78as Mustafa(measured from records)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4Kas Mostofa
- ESSpain1 in 4.2Kas Mustapha
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 Mustafaa 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)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
1,057,634 named Mustafa, 2025
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, US United States and Mostafa in ES Spain, 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)
‘The chosen one’; Qur'anic/prophetic epithet.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mustafaa 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 | — | 1,057,634as Mustafa | 1 in 78 | 1.1M | Mustafa | 58 |
| BD Bangladesh | #183 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Mostafa | 102 |
| US United States | — | 12,765as Mustafa | 1 in 26K | 13K | Mustafa | 182 |
| ES Spain | — | 11,880as Mustapha | 1 in 4.2K | 12K | Mostafa | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7,437as Mustafa | 1 in 1.4K | 7.4K | — | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,115as Mustafa | 1 in 2.8K | 2.1K | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 1,948as Mustafa | 1 in 1.6K | 1.9K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 1,481as Mustafa | 1 in 3.7K | 4.9K | — | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ron Mustafaab. 1989BDCanadian actor
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 164 | #113,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 133 | #128,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Mustafaa mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘The chosen one’; Qur'anic/prophetic epithet. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Mustafaa?
- A machine transcription gives /məsʈafəə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mustafaa a male or female name?
- Mustafaa 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 Mustafaa 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 Mustafaa most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mustafaa 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 Mustafaa?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 1,057,634 people named Mustafa in 2025, about 1 in 78 residents.
- How common is Mustafaa compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mustafaa is the 183rd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mustafaa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mustafaaThe 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, “Mustafaa” — the 183rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.