Moustapha
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Moustapha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- SNSenegal1 in 120◐
- CMCameroon1 in 1.9K
- MAMorocco1 in 4.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.7K ●
- Sources
- 228 ●
- 1 in 23K ◐
across 9 countries
40K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #11 | 5,602 | 2.1K rec. | — | 87 | Moustapha | 64 |
| MA Morocco | #521 | 3,115 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Moustapha | 49 |
| FR France | — | 2,520 | 17K rec. | 1 in 27K | 2.5K | Moustapha | 228 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,189 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Moustapha | 42 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,172 | 1.5K rec. | — | 16 | Moustapha | 39 |
| CM Cameroon | #91 | 1,020 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Moustapha | 20 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #621 | 822 | 870 rec. | — | — | Moustapha | 26 |
| BE Belgium | — | 783 | 966 rec. | — | 15 | Moustapha | 32 |
| US United States | — | 710 | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 469K | 710 | Moustapha | 130 |
| EG Egypt | — | 492 | 323 rec. | — | — | Moustapha | 44 |
| DZ Algeria | #780 | 465 | 805 rec. | — | listed | Moustapha | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | 301 | 367 rec. | — | listed | Moustapha | 50 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French37K53%
- Spanish8.2K12%
- Arabic6.6K9%
- French (Côte d’Ivoire)3.7K5%
- English3.5K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 36,905 | 53% |
| Spanish | 8,207 | 12% |
| Arabic | 6,605 | 9% |
| French (Côte d’Ivoire) | 3,726 | 5% |
| English | 3,524 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 23 |
| 2006 | 14 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 18 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 12 |
| 2025 | 19 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 31 years between 1995–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Moustapha Niasseb. 1939SNSenegalese politician
- Mouss Dioufb. 1964SNnot in their usual nameFrench actor, comedian and humorist (1964–2012)
- Koutoubou Moustapha Sanob. 1966GNGuinean politician and academic
- Moosb. 1974FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer
- Diomansy Kamarab. 1980FRnot in their usual nameSenegalese-French footballer (born 1980)
- Moustapha Salifoub. 1983TGTogolese association football player
- Moustapha Bayal Sallb. 1985SNSenegalese footballer
- Moustapha Fallb. 1992FRFrench basketball player (born 1992)
- Moustapha Mbowb. 2000SNSenegalese association football player
- Moustapha Cisséb. 2003GNGuinean footballer
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 58 sources across 36 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 182 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Moustapha?
- We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Moustapha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Moustapha have the most bearers?
- Moustapha is most frequently recorded in Senegal, where it is most often spelled moustapha.
- How common is Moustapha compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Moustapha is the 11th most common given name of 3,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Moustapha a male or female name?
- Moustapha 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.
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About this data
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, “Moustapha” — the 11th most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.