Mus'Ab
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MOOS-ab
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
Mus'Ab is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “difficult, hard to tame”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).
What does Mus'Ab mean?
Arabic: spelling of Musab
“difficult, hard to tame”
Mus'ab ibn Umayr was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, sent as the first envoy to teach Islam in Medina.
Meaning borrowed from Musab.
Is Mus'Ab a girl's or a boy's name?
Mus'Ab is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mus'Ab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,329th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Mus'Ab, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,562nd. Its busiest year was 2013, with 12 boys.
2025 had fewer boys named Mus'Ab than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Mus'Ab in the UK since 1996 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 70 boys in the UK were given Mus'Ab or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #553, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Mus'Ab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 8 | #2,691 |
| 2022 | 8 | #2,678 |
| 2021 | 7 | #2,886 |
| 2020 | 8 | #2,562 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 8 | #2,576 |
| 2017 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,287 |
| 2015 | 8 | #2,614 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 12 | #1,901 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 8 | #2,503 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,534 |
| 2009 | 6 | #2,970 |
| 2008 | 5 | #3,305 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #3,522 |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #4,262 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 4 | #2,612 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #2,979 |
Names like Mus'Ab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Musa, Mustafa, Zayaan, Abdullah, Zayd, Zayan, Ahmed, Umar, Ibrahim, Amir, Azaan
Other spellings of Mus'Ab
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mus'Ab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mus'ab, updated 20 October 2026.