Meaning and history
Mūstafa means “chosen” in Arabic and comes from اصطفا (iṣṭafā), meaning “to choose”; it is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad. The name was borne by four Ottoman sultans, and another well-known bearer was Mustafa Kemal (1881–1938), also called Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.
20062006: 157 births, rank #1,112
2007: 187 births, rank #1,017
2008: 147 births, rank #1,198
2009: 197 births, rank #998
2010: 176 births, rank #1,092
20112011: 215 births, rank #928
2012: 228 births, rank #908
2013: 231 births, rank #902
2014: 235 births, rank #913
2015: 238 births, rank #907
20162016: 234 births, rank #919
2017: 235 births, rank #909
2018: 240 births, rank #902
2019: 211 births, rank #995
2020: 194 births, rank #1,044
20212021: 261 births, rank #885
2022: 275 births, rank #875
2023: 263 births, rank #884
2024: 304 births, rank #822
20252025: 339 births, rank #760
Mustafa rose from #822 to #761 for boys between 2024 and 2025. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 339.