Mustafa
#760 for boys in 2025, 339 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 339 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,373since 1963
Mustafa over time
Rank among boys' names. Mustafa has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #760 | 339 |
| 2024 | #822 | 304 |
| 2023 | #884 | 263 |
| 2022 | #875 | 275 |
| 2021 | #885 | 261 |
| 2020 | #1,044 | 194 |
| 2019 | #995 | 211 |
| 2018 | #902 | 240 |
| 2017 | #909 | 235 |
| 2016 | #919 | 234 |
| 2015 | #907 | 238 |
| 2014 | #913 | 235 |
| 2013 | #902 | 231 |
| 2012 | #908 | 228 |
| 2011 | #928 | 215 |
| 2010 | #1,092 | 176 |
| 2009 | #998 | 197 |
| 2008 | #1,198 | 147 |
| 2007 | #1,017 | 187 |
| 2006 | #1,112 | 157 |
| 2005 | #1,081 | 152 |
| 2004 | #1,086 | 146 |
| 2003 | #1,041 | 150 |
| 2002 | #945 | 170 |
| 2001 | #992 | 154 |
| 2000 | #1,009 | 145 |
| 1999 | #1,100 | 121 |
| 1998 | #1,005 | 136 |
| 1997 | #1,065 | 119 |
| 1996 | #1,042 | 117 |
| 1995 | #1,144 | 100 |
| 1994 | #1,078 | 107 |
| 1993 | #1,216 | 86 |
| 1992 | #1,328 | 72 |
| 1991 | #1,227 | 82 |
| 1990 | #1,270 | 76 |
| 1989 | #1,243 | 75 |
| 1988 | #1,296 | 63 |
| 1987 | #1,218 | 63 |
| 1986 | #1,320 | 55 |
| 1985 | #1,170 | 64 |
| 1984 | #1,240 | 55 |
| 1983 | #1,130 | 63 |
| 1982 | #1,096 | 69 |
| 1981 | #1,111 | 67 |
| 1980 | #1,187 | 59 |
| 1979 | #1,407 | 44 |
| 1978 | #1,326 | 47 |
| 1977 | #1,407 | 42 |
| 1976 | #2,054 | 23 |
| 1975 | #2,205 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #2,686 | 13 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
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| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mustafa! It came in at #3,044, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mustafa is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#535 · 1 in 3,404
- New York#564 · 1 in 3,613
- Minnesota#584 · 1 in 3,384
- Virginia#609 · 1 in 4,075
- Illinois#624 · 1 in 3,871
Best ever in a state: #230 in District of Columbia, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #535 | 12 | 1 in 3,404 |
| New York | #564 | 27 | 1 in 3,613 |
| Minnesota | #584 | 8 | 1 in 3,384 |
| Virginia | #609 | 10 | 1 in 4,075 |
| Illinois | #624 | 16 | 1 in 3,871 |
| Washington | #706 | 8 | 1 in 4,444 |
| Massachusetts | #710 | 5 | 1 in 5,764 |
| Ohio | #748 | 11 | 1 in 5,305 |
| Missouri | #750 | 6 | 1 in 5,101 |
| Pennsylvania | #756 | 10 | 1 in 5,821 |
| Texas | #784 | 29 | 1 in 6,075 |
| Tennessee | #832 | 6 | 1 in 6,045 |
| Michigan | #873 | 7 | 1 in 6,632 |
| California | #892 | 26 | 1 in 8,296 |
| Georgia | #1,239 | 5 | 1 in 10,738 |
| Florida | #1,242 | 8 | 1 in 12,084 |
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See more about Mustafa
- 62 spots since 2024 (#822 → #760)
- 284 spots since 2020 (#1,044 → #760)
- 147 spots since 2015 (#907 → #760)
- Biggest jump: 200 spots in 2009 (#1,198 → #998)
- Biggest drop: 96 spots in 2003 (#945 → #1,041)
- Debuted 1963
- Peaked 2025 at #760 (339 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2011–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,039 boys born in 2025 were named Mustafa (0.02%)
- 30.4% of all boys named Mustafa (2,243) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 21 | #3,044 (1963) | #3,372 |
| 1970s | 219 | #1,326 (1978) | #2,666 |
| 1980s | 633 | #1,096 (1982) | #1,201 |
| 1990s | 1,016 | #1,005 (1998) | #1,148 |
| 2000s | 1,605 | #945 (2002) | #1,048 |
| 2010s | 2,243 | #902 (2018) | #938 |
| 2020s | 1,636 | #760 (2025) | #878 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mustafa in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,876 of them was named Mustafa, which outranked 93.6% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.