Moussa

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Moussa is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mali it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Musa.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal1 in 151◐
  • MLMali1 in 327
  • CMCameroon1 in 906

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈21K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
290 ●

191K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.5K ◐

France

Meaning & origin●

a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Musa

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Moussa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#61212,345102K rec.1 in 5.5K12KMoussa290
ES Spain—5,9543.1K rec.1 in 8.4K6KMoussa58
DZ Algeria#1105,6418K rec.——Moussa59
MA Morocco#3045,3758.7K rec.——Moussa62
SN Senegal#134,4732.6K rec.—73Moussa60
CI Côte d’Ivoire#2283,0363.3K rec.——Moussa35
ML Mali#22,8643.1K rec.——Moussa40
US United States—2,21620K rec.1 in 150K3KMoussa237
CM Cameroon#322,1504.4K rec.——Moussa28
BE Belgium—1,6013K rec.—596Moussa50
SY Syria—1,4954.4K rec.——Moussa29
EG Egypt—1,4045K rec.——Moussa136

Roughly 12K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 5.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French134K59%
  • Arabic18K8%
  • Spanish17K7%
  • English14K6%
  • aa7.3K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French134,03159%
Arabic18,3078%
Spanish16,5207%
English13,6996%
aa7,3303%

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◐

Moussa is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name52K records spelled Moussa23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Moùssà, Móúśśá, Móùssä, Mõûššä, Möússå

  • Spanish given name29K records spelled Moussa11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Moùssà, Ḿoųsşa, Mõūšşă, Môùssà, Möūsså

  • a separate given name2.8K records spelled Moussa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Morocco, Senegal, Mali

    Also written Moussà

  • Danish given name1.9K records spelled Moussa9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Algeria

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Möùsså, Möusså, Mõüssaa, Mõüsså

  • Turkish given name1.5K records spelled Moussa8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Chad, Algeria

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Moussä, Mouşşa, Mõüssã, Mõüşşâ

  • Indonesian given name928 records spelled Moussa9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Algeria, Morocco

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mõüsså, Môûśśâ, Mõüssä, Mõûssã, Môussã

65 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●

Moussa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Moisés, Moses

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • variant of Musa (Moses).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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●

0204060199020002010202046 · 2013

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Moussa in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1988–2025
Yearrecords
19888
19905
19915
19927
199311
199411
19958
199620
199713
199822
199921
200020
200135
200236
200337
200435
200531
200637
200737
200838
200934
201042
201130
201239
201346
201439
201538
201642
201739
201846
201942
202035
202135
202235
202345
202433
202539

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 37 years between 1988–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Musa ibn Nusayr, b. 640Al Sayed Musa al-Sadr, b. 1928Moussa Traoré, b. 1936Moussa Dadis Camara, b. 1964Moussa Mara, b. 1975Gérald Darmanin, b. 1982Moussa Dembélé, b. 1987Moussa Sissoko, b. 1989Moussa Marega, b. 1991Moussa Wagué, b. 1998

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●

Attested in 87 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Moussa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202412K#118
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6K#784
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—4.7K#416
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,958
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,067
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,177
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—778#5,530
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—778#5,524
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991648—
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—596#2,498
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—532#1,783

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 290 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Moussa?
We estimate roughly 21 thousand people bear Moussa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Moussa have the most bearers?
We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Moussa in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled moussa.
How common is Moussa compared with other names?
In France, Moussa is the 612th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Moussa a male or female name?
Moussa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Moussa mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Musa
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Moussa” — the 612th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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