Mussah
given name · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mussah is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in Swahili and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.
- MWMalawi1 in 1.4K◐
- PHPhilippines1 in 217K
- ZASouth Africa1 in 283K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 1.7K ●
- Sources
- 7 ●
in 5 countries
1.1K records
Reference-verified
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | 769 | 767 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 7 |
| MW Malawi | #147 | 296 | 8 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 120 | 189 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 97 | 38 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 7 |
| GH Ghana | — | 8 | 20 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 5 |
| US United States | — | 7 | 19 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 7 |
| KE Kenya | — | 6 | 3 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 5 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 6 | 7 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 5 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 5 | 2 rec. | — | — | Mussah | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | — | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili72841%
- Indonesian40122%
- English17510%
- Arabic1207%
- Chinese1116%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 728 | 41% |
| Indonesian | 401 | 22% |
| English | 175 | 10% |
| Arabic | 120 | 7% |
| Chinese | 111 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mussah?
- Our records include 1,711 bearers of Mussah across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Mussah have the most bearers?
- Mussah is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled mussah.
- How common is Mussah compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Mussah is the 147th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Mussah a male or female name?
- Mussah is a female 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, “Mussah” — the 147th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.