Musa

What Musa means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Musa yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Musa?

US: Rising: up from #930 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #162 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 651 boys got the name (#469 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 2,624 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 341 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 786 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (2.38 per 1,000 boys), MI (1.17 per 1,000 boys), NY (1.15 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Musa is #469 in the US and #64 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Musa were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Masai116 US
• Muaz31 US · 36 E&W
• Moussa39 US · 7 E&W
• Mousa30 US · 9 E&W
• Muaaz12 US · 14 E&W
• Moosa8 US · 6 E&W
• Mussa8 US · 4 E&W
• Mosa9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Musa

Boys

• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Muhammad#239“praised, commendable, laudable”^*
• Isa#929Diminutive of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Laith#893Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #254 vs #893 in 2025
• Yahya#615Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #81 vs #615 in 2025

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Amina#315“faithful, trustworthy”^*
• Salem#435Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,425 in 2015, #435 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Musa’s. Rank is US 2025.