# Mustafa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mustafa/  
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 | “the chosen one” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,373 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 7,373 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,778, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 215 | 930 |
| 2012 | 228 | 908 |
| 2013 | 231 | 903 |
| 2014 | 235 | 913 |
| 2015 | 238 | 907 |
| 2016 | 234 | 920 |
| 2017 | 235 | 909 |
| 2018 | 240 | 904 |
| 2019 | 211 | 995 |
| 2020 | 194 | 1,045 |
| 2021 | 261 | 886 |
| 2022 | 275 | 877 |
| 2023 | 263 | 885 |
| 2024 | 304 | 822 |
| 2025 | 339 | 761 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 213 | 229 |
| 2012 | 235 | 223 |
| 2013 | 268 | 206 |
| 2014 | 227 | 243 |
| 2015 | 247 | 231 |
| 2016 | 257 | 217 |
| 2017 | 228 | 236 |
| 2018 | 225 | 229 |
| 2019 | 232 | 221 |
| 2020 | 228 | 219 |
| 2021 | 221 | 230 |
| 2022 | 235 | 216 |
| 2023 | 259 | 192 |
| 2024 | 303 | 165 |
| 2025 | 298 | 170 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: مُصْطَفَى
- Armenian: Մուստաֆա
- Bulgarian: Мустафа
- Chinese: 穆斯塔法
- Finnish: Mustafa
- French: Moustapha
- Georgian: მუსტაფა
- Greek: Μουσταφά
- Hebrew: מוסטפא
- Hindi: मुस्तफ़ा
- Italian: Mustafà
- Japanese: ムスタファ
- Korean: 무스타파
- Portuguese: Mustafá
- Russian: Мустафа́
- Slovene: Mustafa
- Spanish: Mustafá
- Turkish: Mustafa
- Ukrainian: Мустафа́

## People named Mustafa

- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
- Mustafa I, 15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
- Mustafa III, 26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757–1774)
- Mustafa II, 22th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1695–1703)
- Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807–1808)
- Mustafa Abdul Jalil, De facto leader of Libya from 2011 to 2012
- Mustafa Amini, Australian association football player
- Mustafa al-Nahhas, Egyptian politician and Prime Minister (1879–1965)
- Mustafa Şentop, 29th Speaker of the Grand National Assemly of Turkey
- Mustafa Kamil, Egyptian politician (1874–1908)
- Mustafa Mahmoud, Egyptian scientist and Muslm and author (1921–2009)
- Mustafa Nadarević, Bosnian actor (1943–2020)

## 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.