# Musa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/musa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmuːsə/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,140 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,109 / 31 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 8,050, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), Persian موسی (Musâ), and Turkish Musa; ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. Doublet of Moses.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 | 1,473 |
| 1918 | 8 | 3,759 |
| 1920 | 5 | 5,530 |
| 1922 | 8 | 3,907 |
| 1926 | 5 | 5,390 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 133 | 1,294 |
| 2012 | 168 | 1,108 |
| 2013 | 148 | 1,214 |
| 2014 | 206 | 1,000 |
| 2015 | 228 | 930 |
| 2016 | 219 | 951 |
| 2017 | 268 | 831 |
| 2018 | 317 | 747 |
| 2019 | 289 | 796 |
| 2020 | 326 | 744 |
| 2021 | 341 | 748 |
| 2022 | 367 | 718 |
| 2023 | 418 | 655 |
| 2024 | 568 | 524 |
| 2025 | 651 | 470 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 217 | 226 |
| 2012 | 257 | 213 |
| 2013 | 293 | 191 |
| 2014 | 301 | 189 |
| 2015 | 362 | 162 |
| 2016 | 431 | 137 |
| 2017 | 447 | 134 |
| 2018 | 452 | 128 |
| 2019 | 434 | 129 |
| 2020 | 482 | 115 |
| 2021 | 533 | 111 |
| 2022 | 566 | 99 |
| 2023 | 607 | 85 |
| 2024 | 731 | 73 |
| 2025 | 798 | 64 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: موسى
- Catalan: Mussa
- French: Moussa
- Turkish: Musa

## People named Musa

- Mansa Musa, 14th-century emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire
- Musa Barrow, Gambian association football player
- Al-Ashraf Musa, Ayyubid emir of Damascus 1229–1237
- Musa Juwara, football player
- Musa Naghiyev, Azerbaijani businessman (1849–1919)
- Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi, 8th-century Abbasid commander and governor
- Musa ibn Yahya, Abbasid provincial governor and official (died c.835)
- Musa Hitam, former 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Al-Hadi, Arab Abbasid Caliph (r. 785-786)
- Theophilus London, American rapper and singer
- Kamal al-Din bin Younis, 11th c. mathematician and chemist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.