Mousa

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Musa in NG Nigeria, TR Türkiye, KE Kenya and 7 more, Муса in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more and Mussa in TZ Tanzania.

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●

Attested across 10 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◐

Mousa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5.1K records spelled Mousa15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Türkiye

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Mõusã, Moůśa, Mṏusa, Mouşa, Móuśa

• a separate surname1.2K records spelled Mousa3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Pakistan, Iraq

  Also written Mousā, Mousà

• Greek given name253 records spelled Mousa8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, Syria, Türkiye, Lebanon

  Also written Musa, Moussa, Μουσα, Moisa, Μούσα

• Bulgarian surname189 records spelled Mousa8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Syria, Türkiye, United States

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

  Also written Моуса, Mouša

40 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●

Mousa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, de mousa, muse. Fête : 19 (29) mai. Musa ou Muse est son équivalent français. Fête : 2 avril.

  as a name·Russian Names

• variant of Musa (Moses).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Latvian, Muša

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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) — 41 years between 1978–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Habib Mousab. 1952SEAssyrian singer from Syria (born 1952)
• Yaseen Musab. 1980QAnot in their usual nameQatari basketball player (born 1980)
• Alaa Mousab. 1985SYformer Syrian doctor accused of torture and crime against humanity
• Abdullah Mousab. 1987AEEmirati footballer
• Salah Zakariab. 1999QAnot in their usual nameQatari footballer
• Haider Abdul-Lateef Mousab. 2000IQresearcher
• Jehad MousaGRresearcher
• Amany M. MousaUSPh.D. Florida State University 1981
• Umut MousaTRresearcher

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 · 164 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mousa?

We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Mousa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Mousa have the most bearers?

Mousa is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled musa.

How common is Mousa compared with other names?

In Nigeria, Mousa is the 19th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.

What does the name Mousa mean?

Recorded meaning: name from the goddess Mousa