# Mustapha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mustapha/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 654 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 654 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 295, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 13 | 6,474 |
| 2012 | 20 | 4,810 |
| 2013 | 15 | 5,834 |
| 2014 | 14 | 6,210 |
| 2015 | 18 | 5,210 |
| 2016 | 24 | 4,276 |
| 2017 | 14 | 6,235 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,471 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,475 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,890 |
| 2021 | 15 | 5,948 |
| 2022 | 12 | 7,109 |
| 2023 | 19 | 5,191 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,125 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,769 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20 | 1,241 |
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2,954 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 7 | 2,707 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1,627 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,160 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## People named Mustapha

- Mustapha Ghorbal, Algerian association football referee
- Mustapha Dahleb, Algerian association football player
- Mustapha Moussa, Algerian boxer (1962–2024)
- Mustapha Bundu, association football player
- Mustapha Zitouni, French and Algerian footballer (1928-2014)
- Mustapha Carayol, Gambian association football player
- Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, Algerian professor, cosmologist, astrophysicist, researcher and university teacher
- Mustapha Jarju, Gambian footballer
- Mustapha Dumbuya, footballer (born 1987)
- Mustapha Sangaré, French-Malian footballer
- Moustapha Sonko, French basketball player (born 1972)
- Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Algerian politician (1917–1956)

## 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.