# Musa (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/musa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,736 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,773 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 82,641 people |
| Change since 2000 | +77% (2,111 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Musa in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 45% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 37% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 5.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 4.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Musa in Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria.

## People named Musa

- Said Musa, 3rd Prime Minister of Belize from 1998 to 2008
- Džanan Musa, Bosnian basketball player (born 1999)
- Christopher Gwabin Musa, 18th Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria

## Similar surnames

Mesa, Muse, Maus, Musso, Moussa, Muise, Mousseau, Mousa, Mucha, Musco, McCoy, Mejia.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.