Mustafo
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- moo-STAH-foh
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #3,035 for boys
Mustafo is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the chosen one”. In 2025 it ranked 3,035th for boys in the US (40 babies).
What does Mustafo mean?
Arabic: Central Asian form of Mustafa
“the chosen one”
Uzbek and Tajik form of Mustafa, a title of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Mustafo a girl's or a boy's name?
Mustafo is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 40 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mustafo in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,035th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 40 about 1 in 43,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 242% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 40 boys in the US were named Mustafo, making it the 3,035th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 47 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017.
Half of all the boys named Mustafo in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mustafo in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,035 |
| 2024 | 47 | #2,750 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,695 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
Names like Mustafo
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Mouhamed, Muhammadali, Musab, Zayd, Zahir, Musa, Zayan, Azaiah, Muhammadyusuf, Abubakr, Asaiah
Names related to Mustafo
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from 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, “Mustafo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mustafo, updated 20 October 2026.