Mujtaba

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mojtaba in IR Iran, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 13 more and Моджтаба in RU Russia.

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 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◐

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

• a separate given name3.4K records spelled Mujtaba3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Iran

  Also written Mujtabā, Mujtabá

• French given name564 records spelled Mujtaba4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Pakistan

  Also written Mûjţăbą, Műjtàbá

• Norwegian Bokmål given name322 records spelled Mujtaba7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

  Also written Mùjtâbâ, Mûjtäbâ

• Polish given name112 records spelled Mujtaba2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Mûjtábà

33 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●

Mujtaba 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.

• In Arabic, chosen, selected, elected; title of the Prophet Muhammad

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• ‘Chosen’, a byname of the Prophet Muhammad.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first 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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 33 years between 1987–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Syed Mujtaba Alib. 1904BDBengali author and scholar
• Mujtaba Musavi Larib. 1925IRShi'a Twelver Islamic scholar
• Mujtaba Hussaini Shirazib. 1943IQIraqi ayatollah
• Mujtaba Sayed Jaafarb. 1981QAQatari footballer
• Mujtaba Mohammedb. 1984SASaudi Arabian footballer
• Mujtaba Faizb. 1989AFfootballer
• M Hunchob. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish rapper
• Mojtaba Al-Salemb. 1994SAnot in their usual nameSaudi Arabian handball player

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 · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mujtaba?

We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Mujtaba (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Mujtaba have the most bearers?

Mujtaba is most frequently recorded in Iran, where it is most often spelled mojtaba.

How common is Mujtaba compared with other names?

In Afghanistan, Mujtaba is the 70th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.

Is Mujtaba a male or female name?

Mujtaba 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 Mujtaba mean?

Recorded meaning: chosen, selected. An epithet of Muhammad (s).