Mustafa

maleStatistical record

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

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

Mustafa: Recorded since 1946, its highest recorded position is #165, and it stood at #297 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
127times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#165highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mustafa's record

Moved 149 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#327
1997	#293
1998	#293
1999	#302
2000	#277
2001	#285
2002	#242
2003	#256
2004	#231
2005	#222
2006	#230
2007	#228
2008	#210
2009	#218
2010	#222
2011	#229
2012	#223
2013	#206
2014	#243
2015	#231
2016	#217
2017	#236
2018	#229
2019	#221
2020	#219
2021	#230
2022	#216
2023	#192
2024	#165

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 78 of the 80 years from 1946 to 2025.

In 2025: #297 among boys in Norway, #309 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1946–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1946
First recorded at #258 among boys in Norway in 1946 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #165 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #297 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Mustafa appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 78 years beginning in 1946, and has registered 1,385 births with the name.

Mustafa across 3 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.

Mustafa'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	#258 (1946)	#167 (1994)	#297 (2025)	78 of 80	1,385 (1946–2025)	38 (1994)
England and Wales · Boys	#327 (1996)	#165 (2024)	#165 (2024)	29 of 29	5,480 (1996–2024)	303 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#390 (2000)	#309 (2025)	#309 (2025)	19 of 26	111 (2000–2025)	14 (2025)

Mustafa 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 Mustafa in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	34	4 of 10	9
1950s	51	8 of 10	6
1960s	130	10 of 10	13
1970s	179	10 of 10	18
1980s	227	10 of 10	23
1990sbusiest	282	10 of 10	28
2000s	205	10 of 10	21
2010s	203	10 of 10	20
2020s	74	6 of 10	12

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mustafa 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 4 regions, from 1946 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #165 in England and Wales in 2024.

Mustafa'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	#165	303	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#192	259	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#216	235	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#230	221	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#219	228	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#221	232	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#229	225	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#236	228	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#217	257	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#231	247	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#243	227	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#206	268	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#223	235	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#229	213	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#222	217	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#218	207	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#210	221	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#228	191	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#230	177	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#222	160	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#231	149	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#256	121	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#242	121	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#285	96	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#277	98	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#302	90	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#293	90	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#293	90	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#327	74	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#297	13	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#252	17	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#291	14	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#335	10	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#380	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#278	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#229	21	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#334	11	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#268	18	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#257	19	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#212	25	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#193	30	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#289	16	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#244	20	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#212	25	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#262	18	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#252	20	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#263	18	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#276	16	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#274	16	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#221	22	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#235	20	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#208	26	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#222	21	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#206	26	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#247	20	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#180	33	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#193	27	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#247	20	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#246	21	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#191	32	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#167	38	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#190	33	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#239	26	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#215	29	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#236	23	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#245	23	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#274	18	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#232	24	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#225	27	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#192	34	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#221	25	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#245	22	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#293	17	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#317	14	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#237	23	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#248	21	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#259	20	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#230	23	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#321	14	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#275	17	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#415	10	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#266	18	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#282	17	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#268	17	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#232	22	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#272	16	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#258	16	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#291	13	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#283	14	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#304	12	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#308	12	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#250	16	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#247	15	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#348	8	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#360	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#437	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#392	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#409	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#309	9	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#428	4	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#366	6	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#284	9	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#315	7	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#292	8	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#355	5	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#271	10	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#258	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#309	14	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#407	9	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#381	10	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#471	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#418	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#541	5	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#715	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#479	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#430	8	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#527	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#227	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1946 and 2025, ranked in 78 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #165, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 303 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 78 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.

Muskan · #1150, 25y
Mussa · #2055, 20y
Mustapha · #629, 28y
Mustaqeem · #2587, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Jose · #180, 79y
Hasan · #191, 73y
Konrad · #122, 76y
Sylvia · #111, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Annlaug · #165, 30y
Cecilia · #165, 71y
Joar · #165, 81y
Mildrid · #165, 30y

Mustafa was ranked #165 in England and Wales · Boys in 2024. 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.

Mustafa 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 Mustafa without appearing here.

Mustafa moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2021 they stood at #699 and #699 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2022 that had become #407 and #779.
Xavier Compare
In 2024 they stood at #430 and #430 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #309 and #676.
Andreas Compare
In 2016 they stood at #715 and #715 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2017 that had become #418 and #710.
Marius Compare
In 2017 they stood at #715 and #715 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2018 that had become #471 and #749.

Moved ahead of Mustafa

Sondre Compare
In 1973 they stood at #266 and #372 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #415 and #246.
Adrian Compare
In 1973 they stood at #266 and #485 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #415 and #280.
Markus Compare
In 1980 they stood at #237 and #247 in Norway · Boys; by 1981 that had become #317 and #199.
Alfred Compare
In 2022 they stood at #407 and #657 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #584 and #472.

Moved the opposite way to Mustafa

Noel Compare
Between 1994 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mustafa went from #167 to #297 while Noel went from #601 to #139.
Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mustafa went from #327 to #165 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mustafa went from #327 to #165 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mustafa went from #327 to #165 while Alan went from #163 to #592.

Moved the same way as Mustafa

Kenneth Compare
Between 1946 and 2021 in Norway · Boys, Mustafa went from #258 to #380 and Kenneth from #275 to #475.
Stig Compare
Between 1946 and 2021 in Norway · Boys, Mustafa went from #258 to #380 and Stig from #102 to #493.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mustafa went from #327 to #165 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Mustafa went from #327 to #165 and Alfie from #119 to #16.

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 4 regions, from 1946 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #165 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mustafa

Mustafa at a glance

What stands out in Mustafa's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mustafa across 3 official records

Mustafa by decade in Norway · Boys

Mustafa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Mustafa

Mustafa and the names beside it

Mustafa moved ahead of

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Mustafa at a glance

What stands out in Mustafa's record

Mustafa across 3 official records

Mustafa by decade in Norway · Boys

Mustafa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Mustafa

Mustafa and the names beside it

Mustafa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mustafa

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