Musti
given name · Latin script
Meaning: alternative spelling of mesti (“must; sure”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/musti/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Musti is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 430K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 11M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 250Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 254K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)alternative spelling of mesti (“must; sure”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Musti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 433K | 111 | Musti | 40 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 666K | — | Musti | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 254K | 1 | Musti | 4 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39M | listed | Musti | 49 |
| IT Italy | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Musti 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 Catalan, alternative form of mústic (“withered”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, the heavy recoilless anti-tank gun 95 S 58-61
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mqs, to be necessary, to have to, must
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive singular of mustum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, to milk
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)- Domenico Mustib. 1934ITItalian historian of antiquity (1934-2010)
- Alessio Mustib. 1974ITItalian association futsal player and manager
- Manlio Lo Vecchio MustiITItalian teacher
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Musti mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative spelling of mesti (“must; sure”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Musti?
- It depends on the language: in Turkish /musti/; in Indonesian /mˈusti/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Musti a male or female name?
- Musti is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Musti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Musti in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musti. After it come Türkiye, Belgium, United States and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Musti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3,300 people in India have Musti as their first given name, about 1 in 433 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Musti?
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/mustiThe 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, “Musti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.