Mustafah
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MOOS-ta-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Mustafah is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “chosen”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Mustafah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Mustafa
“chosen”
Al-Mustafa, 'the chosen one', is a title of the Prophet Muhammad; Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founded modern Turkey.
Meaning borrowed from Mustafa. More on Wiktionary.
Is Mustafah a girl's or a boy's name?
Mustafah is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mustafah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 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, 3 boys in the UK were named Mustafah, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2004, with 4 boys.
In 2025, 318 boys in the UK were given Mustafah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #191, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Mustafah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,198 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #4,837 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,026 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,147 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #3,146 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 3 | #3,021 |
Names like Mustafah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Abdullah, Hamza, Huzaifa, Abdallah, Mouhamed, Musab, Fahad, Saifullah, Ahmed, Mahmoud, Musa
Other spellings of Mustafah
Names related to Mustafah
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, 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, “Mustafah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mustafah, updated 20 October 2026.