Mushtaq

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Mustaq in IN India, GY Guyana and Mushtaque in BD Bangladesh.

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◐

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

• a separate given name22K records spelled Mushtaq4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Iraq

  Also written Musḥtaq, Mushtãq, Mushtāq

• French given name2.4K records spelled Mushtaq3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, India, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Müšhtàq

• Pashto given name1.3K records spelled Mushtaq2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq

  Also written Mushtāq

49 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●

Mushtaq is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• desirous; hopeful

  as a name·Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

• Ardently

  as a name·Dictionary of Islamic Names

• MYALL

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Arabic, longing, desiring, eager

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim 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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 93 years between 1914–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mushtaq Khanb. 1961BDeconomist
• Mushtaq Ahmad Khanb. 1974PKpolitician in Pakistan
• Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedib. 1980IQIraqi militant commander (1980–2024)

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 · 284 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mushtaq?

We estimate roughly 796 people bear Mushtaq (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Mushtaq have the most bearers?

Mushtaq is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mustaq.

How common is Mushtaq compared with other names?

In Pakistan, Mushtaq is the 42nd most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.

Is Mushtaq a male or female name?

Mushtaq 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 Mushtaq mean?

Recorded meaning: longing, eager, desirous