Male name
Musa
8,050 births (England and Wales, 1996–2025), peaking in 2025.
Origin
Transliteration of Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā), Persian موسی (Musâ), and Turkish Musa; ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. Doublet of Moses.From Wiktionary, entry “Musa”, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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In England and Wales
Peak in 2025: 798 births. 8,050 births from 1996 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. At its peak, it ranked 65th among boys' names in 2025. It really came into use around 1998. It is still given: 3,235 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Baby names in England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the United States
Peak in 2025: 651 births. 6,140 births from 1880 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2010s and 2020s. It really came into use around 1984. It is still given: 2,345 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, public domain.
In Ireland
Peak in 2024: 16 births. 82 births from 1964 to 2025. A name given mostly in the 2020s. It is still given: 56 births from 2021 to 2025.
Source: Central Statistics Office, Irish Babies' Names, CC BY 4.0.
Elsewhere in the world
The name in the birth records of the 10 countries we track. The period covered varies from country to country.
| Country | Births | Period | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 835 | 1900–2025 | — |
| Switzerland | 834* | 1915–2025 | — |
| Austria | 430 | 1984–2025 | — |
| Berlin | 319 | 2012–2023 | 73rd in 2023 |
| Belgium | 78 | 2014–2023 | — |
* These are the people living in the country, counted by year of birth, not the number of births.
Source: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms, Etalab Open Licence 2.0; Federal Statistical Office, First names of the population by year of birth, free use with attribution; Statistik Austria, Vornamen, CC BY 4.0; Open Data Berlin, Häufige Vornamen, CC BY 3.0 DE (every name a child carries, not only the first); Statbel, first names of newborns, CC BY 4.0 (one total for the whole period, no yearly breakdown).
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