Mustafa

Where Mustafa comes from

From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mustafa
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1591
    Mustafa I born
    15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  2. 1881
    Mustafa Kemal Atatürk born
    founding father of the Republic of Turkey
  3. 1963
    First appearance
    #3,044 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #760
    339 babies named Mustafa — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
Namesakes
  • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk · founding father of the Republic of Turkey, 1881–1938
  • Mustafa I · 15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1591–1639
  • Mustafa III · 26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1717–1774
  • Mustafa II · 22th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1664–1703
  • Mustafa IV · 29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1779–1808

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.