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Musa

Arabic form of Moses appearing in the Quran.

PronunciationArabic /ˈmuː.saː/; Turkish /muː.ˈsaː/; Indonesian /ˈmu.sa/
Usage languagesArabic, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Bengali, Chechen, Hausa, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Malay, Quranic, Tatar, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur
US rank (2025)#469

Meaning and history

Mūsa is the Arabic form of Moses, as used in the Quran.

Popularity over timeUS births · boys
20062006: 102 births, rank #1,492
2007: 109 births, rank #1,464
2008: 96 births, rank #1,620
2009: 114 births, rank #1,459
2010: 130 births, rank #1,316
20112011: 133 births, rank #1,285
2012: 168 births, rank #1,106
2013: 148 births, rank #1,211
2014: 206 births, rank #999
2015: 228 births, rank #930
20162016: 219 births, rank #950
2017: 268 births, rank #829
2018: 317 births, rank #747
2019: 289 births, rank #794
2020: 326 births, rank #744
20212021: 341 births, rank #747
2022: 367 births, rank #718
2023: 418 births, rank #653
2024: 568 births, rank #523
20252025: 651 births, rank #469

Musa rose from #524 to #470 for boys between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 651.