Musaab
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MOOS-ab
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,342 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Musaab is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “difficult, hard to tame”. In 2025 it ranked 2,342nd for boys in the UK (10 babies) and 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Musaab 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 Musaab a girl's or a boy's name?
Musaab is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the UK and 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Musaab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,342nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 30,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the UK were named Musaab, making it the 2,342nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,502nd.
2025 had the most boys named Musaab of any year since it first appeared, in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Musaab in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 70 boys in the UK were given Musaab or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #553, up from #2,342 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,265th in England and Wales.
Musaab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,342 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,457 |
| 2021 | 8 | #2,619 |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,191 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 7 | #2,792 |
| 2012 | 4 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #3,836 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 4 | #3,330 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
How popular is Musaab in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,799th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Musaab, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,016th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Musaab in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 79 boys in the US were given Musaab or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,694, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.
- Musab 67
- Musaab 12
Musaab in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #12,016 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,797 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,224 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
Names like Musaab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Mustafa, Zayd, Zayaan, Abdullah, Ahmed, Zayan, Umar, Amir, Zayyan, Raheem, Ibrahim
Other spellings of Musaab
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Musaab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/musaab, updated 20 October 2026.