Mostafa

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mostafa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mostafa: Recorded since 1958, it reached #327 in 2001, and it stood at #2,921 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
65times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#327highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2859
1998	#2419
2000	#3036
2001	#2587
2002	#2636
2003	#3467
2004	#2070
2005	#2418
2006	#2870
2007	#3095
2008	#2507
2009	#1859
2010	#2199
2011	#3300
2012	#2458
2013	#2954
2014	#1935
2015	#3908
2016	#2335
2017	#3996
2018	#2693
2019	#3013
2020	#3848
2021	#3017
2022	#2755
2024	#2921

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 38 of the 62 years from 1958 to 2019.

In 2019: #472 among boys in Norway, #3013 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1958–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1958
First recorded at #472 among boys in Norway in 1958 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1958–2019
Highest recorded position: #327 among boys in Norway, in 2001 (recorded 1958–2019).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2921 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Mostafa appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 38 years beginning in 1958, and has registered 249 births with the name.

Mostafa across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mostafa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#472 (1958)	#327 (2001)	#472 (2019)	38 of 62	249 (1958–2019)	12 (1994)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1859 (2009)	#2921 (2024)	27 of 29	160 (1996–2024)	11 (2009)

Mostafa by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mostafa in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	19	3 of 10	6
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1980s	49	8 of 10	6
1990sbusiest	82	10 of 10	8
2000s	51	8 of 10	6
2010s	39	7 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mostafa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #327 in Norway in 2001.

Mostafa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3013	6	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2693	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2335	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3300	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2199	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1859	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2070	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#472	5	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#395	9	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#466	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#547	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#482	6	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#511	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#485	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#562	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#470	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#497	5	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#571	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#383	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#327	11	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#429	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#361	10	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#378	9	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#585	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#448	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#382	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#335	12	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#365	11	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#556	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#401	10	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#638	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#639	4	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#520	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#503	7	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#589	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#470	8	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#508	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#539	6	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#590	5	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#554	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#532	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#416	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#400	7	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#472	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1958 and 2024, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #327, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in Norway in 1994.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 38 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Motti · #2007, 16y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mahamed · #327, 51y
Thanh · #329, 49y
Van · #318, 43y
Iseult · #316, 47y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Ahmet · #327, 65y
Ingvil · #325, 31y
My · #329, 54y
Thanh · #329, 49y

Mostafa was ranked #327 in Norway · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mostafa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mostafa without appearing here.

Mostafa moved ahead of

Morten Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3300 and #2390 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1935 and #4632.
Graeme Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2870 and #2870 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1859 and #4527.
Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3908 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2335 and #4810.
Glenn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3017 and #2730 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2921 and #5119.

Moved ahead of Mostafa

Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1935 and #2079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #3908 and #1902.
Braxton Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2199 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #3300 and #1398.
Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1174.
Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1761.

Moved the opposite way to Mostafa

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Mostafa

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mostafa went from #2020 to #2921 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1958 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #327 in Norway in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mostafa

Mostafa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mostafa across 2 official records

Mostafa by decade in Norway · Boys

Mostafa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

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Mostafa and the names beside it

Mostafa moved ahead of

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Mostafa at a glance

Mostafa across 2 official records

Mostafa by decade in Norway · Boys

Mostafa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Mostafa

Mostafa and the names beside it

Mostafa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mostafa

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