Moosa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Musa in IN India, NG Nigeria, PK Pakistan and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Moosa is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname9.5K records spelled Moosa2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, South Africa

  Also written Moosä

• Spanish surname1.3K records spelled Moosa4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Möosa

• Malayalam surname1.1K records spelled Moosa6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Mosa, മൂസ, ಮೋಸ, മുസ്

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Moosa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In hop, domestic cat (animal)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ebrahim E.I. Moosab. 1950ZAAmerican academic
• Shaquille Moosab. 2002ZMZambian swimmer
• Mohammad Kasim MoosaIDIndonesian carcinologist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 118 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Moosa?

We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Moosa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Moosa have the most bearers?

Moosa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled musa.

How common is Moosa compared with other names?

In Nigeria, Moosa is the 353rd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.